|
|
|
Pte. Daniel Newton . British Army from Whitwell, Derbyshire
|
Sgt. Dennis Harvey Newton . British Army Royal Engineers I am trying to find information about my grandfather. He was in the British Army and his name was Dennis Harvey Newton…… maybe? Or Dennis Newton or possibly Robert Nunn. Supposed to be a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers during the 2nd World War. He lived near Farnborough. I have had no luck so far. I have never met my grandfather. Apparently he was not called up for WW2 as he was already a professional soldier.
More info sent to me by a military enthusiast:
He is definitely wearing the cap badge of the Royal Engineers. The crown on the badge indicates that the photo was taken during the reign of King George VI; therefore, the photo was taken after 1945 but before 1953. Unfortunately, the ribbons are the common WW2 campaign ribbons plus the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ribbon. This last indicates that he had served at least 18 years in the Army when the medal was issued. Many thousands of men would have had this combination of ribbons. I can see no indication of his rank. He looks to be in his late thirties or early forties.
Does anyone remember him?
|
E. Newton . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
|
Flt.Sgt. Esdile Ian "Blonde" Newton . Royal Air Force 227 Squadron from Portsmouth Esdile Newton flew as a Rear Gunner with 227 Squadron.
|
FH Newton . British Army Royal Scots Greys FH Newton served with the Royal Scots Greys British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
Fus. Frederick Stephen Newton . British Army Royal Irish Fusiliers Frederick Stephen was my father-in law born in 1910 in Stanstead, Herts.
He was called up and sent by train from London to Carlisle where they caught a boat to Ireland. On the boat he still had civilian clothes on when they said put your life jackets on because German U boats have been spotted.
He was in the Infantry. On his marriage cert in 1943 it says Fusilier.
He got called up as he was in the building trade I think in 1942.
He served in Ireland during the war with the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
He survived the war. I don't know any more.
|
Cpl. Gordon Newton . British Army A Coy., 9th Parachute Btn. Parachute Regiment From The Daily Telegraph, 10 November.
Gordon Newton, who has died aged 94, took part in the airborne D-Day assault on the heavily fortified and strategically important Merville battery on the coastline of Normandy. The battery was manned by a strong garrison and protected by anti-aircraft and machine guns, minefields, an anti-tank ditch, and barbed-wire obstacles. It was equipped with four 100mm guns in thick, steel-reinforced concrete casemates, capable of laying down a devastating fire on Sword Beach, where the British 3rd Infantry Division was to land.
The 9th (Eastern & Home Counties) Parachute Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, part of 3rd Parachute Brigade and commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway, was given the task of silencing the battery before the seaborne invasion began at dawn on June 6. Newton was part of G-B Force, selected from “A” Company and commanded by Captain Robert Gordon-Brown. This group, comprising 58 men, had the job of crash-landing three gliders inside the battery’s defences and attacking the casemates from the front while the main force was parachuted in and attacked from the rear. Bangalore torpedoes were to be used to blast a path through the coils of barbed wire. Taping parties had to lift the mines and mark corridors through the fields. If the attack, set for 0430 hours, had not succeeded by 0530, the light cruiser Arethusa had orders to bombard the battery.
The brigade commander called it a “Grade A stinker of a job”. Major General (later General Sir) Richard Gale, commander of 6th Airborne Division, addressing the battalion before the operation, said: “Only a fool would go where we are going.” Years later, Newton learnt that the planners regarded his unit’s role in the assault as a suicide mission. Members of G-B Force were armed with automatic weapons, grenades, and fighting knives. Newton, a heavily built man, carried the flame thrower. The three Horsa gliders, high-winged monoplanes with a tricycle undercarriage, were mostly constructed of laminated plywood.
The last of the three gliders took off from RAF Brize Norton at about 0230, but the towrope parted over the Channel and it returned to England. The remaining two, drawn by Albemarle bombers, were heavily loaded. Even in ideal conditions, it would take great skill to make a pinpoint landing. They had to make a dive approach at night, pull up at the last moment, touch down at about 70 mph and rely on the arrester parachute to bring them to a dead stop. If they hit the stakes planted by the Germans, it could turn the glider into matchwood. The main group had encountered gusting winds, low cloud, dust and smoke from Allied bombing, incoming tracer and, as they approached the dropping zone, heavy anti-aircraft fire, forcing them to take evasive action. Some of the crews were inexperienced, much equipment was lost, and most of the battalion was scattered over 50 square miles of Normandy. Many of the men, weighed down by kit, drowned in marshes and submerged irrigation ditches.
Halfway across the Channel, the airspeed of the glider in which Newton and Gordon-Brown were traveling suddenly dropped. The arrester mechanism had broken and the parachute was trailing behind in the slipstream. It had to be cut free before it dragged the glider and the tug aircraft into the sea. As they approached the battery, while still under tow, tracer bullets burst through the floor of the glider, splintering wood and metal before going out through the roof. No marker flares or mortar star-shells were visible, and the pilot of the tug aircraft gave them the choice of being cast off or being taken back to Britain.
Staff Sergeant Stanley Bone made his choice by pulling on the towrope lever and they were in free flight. He saw a light and, thinking it was the battery, put the glider into a steep dive. At about 500 ft, however, he realised that it was Gonneville-en-Auge under fire. He banked away, landing about 1,000 yards from Gonneville and a mile from the battery. Newton had been seated at the rear of the glider but decided to move further forward. When the aircraft landed, the tail broke off. He would have been killed had he remained where he was. He tumbled out into a flooded field and the weight of his kit almost drowned him. Anti-aircraft fire had damaged the flamethrower. He heard it bubbling and was relieved to jettison something that he regarded as a ghastly weapon.
As the second glider, flying two minutes behind, arrived over the position, it came under heavy anti-aircraft fire. It was on the point of touching down in a minefield in front of the battery when the pilot realised his mistake. He lifted the aircraft again, swooped over the heads of the troops waiting to make their assault and landed near an orchard some 500 yards away.
After the disastrous parachute drop, 9th Para Battalion was under-strength. Only 150 men out of the 640 who flew out of England mustered in time for the main assault. The heavy guns were neutralised after a ferocious firefight. The Germans re-occupied the battery after the battalion had moved on to attack the next objective. They managed to get two guns working again, albeit at a reduced rate of fire, but too late to stop the landings. On August 16, the Germans withdrew their troops from the battery.
After the raid on the Merville Battery, Newton and his comrades in GB Force moved to 3rd Para Brigade HQ, and subsequently took part in some of the fiercest fighting in the Normandy campaign. Dozulé Station was captured during the night of August 18-19. With daylight came the enemy counter-attack. Withering fire from machine guns was followed by a determined assault in five waves. When these were driven off, the Germans opened up with 88mm guns and mortars at a range of a few hundred yards. Newton said afterwards that he thought that he would not live through the day. “A” Company suffered 40 casualties, almost half its strength.
In September 1944, after the break-out from Normandy, 9th Para Battalion was withdrawn to England to re-equip. Newton fought in the Battle of the Ardennes and the forced crossing of the Rhine, before finishing the campaign at Wismar on the Baltic.
|
CPO. Henry Newton . Royal Navy HMS Philoctetes from Fleetwood My father, Henry Newton, was one of the workers who spent long hours converting Fleetwood trawlers for use as minesweepers for the Royal Navy. When he saw these set sail he decided to join the Royal Navy. The first ship he was assigned to was HMS Philoctetes.
Based in Freetown, West Africa, his job was to repair destroyers and submarines. Whilst in Freetown he saw some of the trawlers that he had helped to convert!
|
Tpr. Herbert Leonard Newton . British Army 1st Airborne Squadron Reconnaissance Corps from Bath My grandad, Bert Newton served in the 1st Airborne Recce Squadron from 1941 to 1945. He was in Tunisia and Sicily and he took part in Operation Market Garden where he was a causality and then a prisoner of war.
He was reunited with his wife and young family after the war.
|
Sgt. J. Newton . 97 Squadron
|
PFC. James Turner Newton . United States Army Coy E. 157th Infantry Regiment from Lexington, Alabama My daddy, PFC James Newton was with company E of the 157th Regiment, 45th Thunderbird Division. He enlisted at Ft. McCellan, Alabama in November 19, 1942, and was discharged from service November 17, 1945. He was captured at the battle of Reipertswiller on J20th or 21st of anuary 1945. Daddy said that he had been wounded at the battle and was treated by a German doctor. Daddy did not talk much about what went on while he was in the POW camp.
He did say that they got one raw potato and some bread a day, and he stated that he weighed 69 pounds when he was liberated, and when they were
put on a ship to come home a lot of POWS died due to eating too much. They were told to eat crackers. My daddy passed in 1987. If someone knew him or had pictures please email them to me.
|
JJ Newton . British Army Lancashire Fusiliers JJ Newton served with the Lancashire Fusiliers British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
CPO. John Newton . Royal Navy My father John Newton, was in the Royal Navy and told us of the story of the night they where torpedoed. He said the only ones survived where the people who could catch hold of the ropes that were thrown to them many of them in the water could not feel their hands so they perished. My father was one of the few who survived.
|
Tpr. John Newton . British Army 18th Battalion Reconnaissance Corps from Farnworth, Lancashire (d.12th June 1945) John Newton served with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and 18th Recce Regiment. He died whilst prisoner of war on the 12th of June 1945
in Thailand. He had been captured on the 15th of February 1942.
|
Tpr. John Newton . British Army 18th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps from Bolton (d.12th June 1945) John Newton arrived in Singapore and was captured on the 15th of February 1942 during the surrender. He remained a POW until his demise on the 12th of June 1945.
|
Marshall Lindsay Newton . Army Ox and Bucks Light Infantry My father Marshall Lindsay Newton talked to me when I was a little girl about being a prisoner of war and being kept in a "pit" and fed on only onions,as he was moved from camp to camp, Stalag V11A must have been where he ended up. He talked about being liberated by the Americans at the end of the war and them pulling him out of the pit. Mum said he looked half starved when he came home " you could put your fist in the hollows of his cheeks". I found only yesterday his identity tag it says, Stalag V11/A 137638 Does anyone have any relevant information about my dad, or the pow camp? Dad was in the Army with the Oxford and Bucks L.I. I would be grateful of any information at all to pass onto his grandchildren.
|
R Newton . British Army 51st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment R Newton served with the 51st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
R Newton . British Army R Newton served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
R Newton . British Army R Newton served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
S Newton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps S Newton served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
Sydney Denham Newton . British Army Derbyshire Yeomanry
|
S/Sgt. Warren "Pappy" Newton . United States Air Force 337th Bomb Sqdn. I am looking for any information on the 337th Bomb Squadron, especially a plane called "Candie Ann". The plane was named after my wife's oldest sister. The "Candie Ann" limped home from a mission, landed on a railroad track and was demolished by a train. My wife's father was S/Sgt Warren "Pappy" Newton.
|
F/Lt. William Ellis Newton VC.. Royal Australian Air Force 22 Squadron from Australia (d.29th Mar 1943)
|
Cpl. William Newton . British Army 5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters from Mansfield William Newton was my grandfather. He was a POW for approximately 2 years at Stalag 4D/Z before he managed to escape, along with one other prisoner.
|
2nd.Lt. Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu VC.. New Zealand Exp. Force 28th (MaÂori) Battalion from New Zealand (d.27th March 1943)
|
William Leslie Niblock . British Army Royal Armoured Corps
|
W/O Zina Manford Niblock . Royal Canadian Air Force 415 Sqdn. from Ontario (d.18th February 1943) Hampden AE 435 "U" (415) crash Docking
This Hampden was based at Thorney Island (east of Portsmouth, Hampshire) serving in No. 415 Squadron RCAF in Coastal Command. At the time of its loss, it was operating out of the Coastal Command airfield at RAF Docking. The Hampden took off at 2030 hours on 18th February 1943 for an operation against German shipping off Iymuiden, Holland. It immediately crashed on take-off near to Docking railway station. There were no survivors from the crew of four and they were buried in St Mary's Church Cemetery, Great Bircham, Norfolk, a short distance from RAF Docking. The aircraft was acting as a torpedo bomber in its Coastal Command anti-shipping role, and the area was quickly evacuated because it had an unexploded torpedo on board. The crew were:
W/O2 (Warrant Officer Grade 2) P.B. Campbell, Pilot, RCAF
Flying Officer K. R. Maffre, Observer, RCAF
W/O2 R.E. Vokey, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF
W/O2 Z.M. Niblock, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF.
Hampden AE 435 was one of a batch of 425 B1 aircraft manufactured by English Electric Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire and would have been converted to a TB1 (Torpedo Bomber) for use within Coastal Command when the squadron converted to Hampdens in January 1942. As a B1 aircraft it may have seen service operationally with a Bomber Command squadron.
|
L Nice . British Army L Nice served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
A Nichol . British Army Royal Northumberland Fusiliers A Nichol served with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
AF Nichol . British Army AF Nichol served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
|
|
