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Henry Newton
British Army B Coy 14th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Harry Newton was born in 1891 in Gateshead, the son of Henry Newton and Elizabeth Jane Newton. He was one of ten children.
He joined up in September 1914 at the start of the war, when he would have been 23. The 14th Northumberland Fusiliers were a Pals Battalion known as The Northumberland Pioneers.
He served in B Company Number 8 platoon. He died on the 1st of July 1916 when he was aged 25, on the first day of The Battle of the Somme. 39 men of his platoon went over the top of whom 12 were killed and 7 wounded. His body was never found.
Harry is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
His family (my great-grandparents and their other children) were unable to afford to visit the Memorial and graves of their sons and husbands who died in France.