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Pte. Henry George Newsum

British Army 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry

from:Walthamstow, Essex

(d.23rd October 1917)

My uncle Henry Newsum served in WW1 with Northamptonshire Regiment 24536, The Wiltshire Regiment 203518, and Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry 204281. He was injured twice and was killed in action in Flanders on 23rd October 1917 whilst serving with the 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry.

He is remembered in: St Michael's & All Angels Church Walthamstow, St Martin's Chapel, Wells Cathedral and on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium.



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