1917  25th April

Name

13th Hussars  Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line

St Stephen's war memorial, Redditch

St Stephen's Church war memorial, Redditch


Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 5th May 1917 and Evening Despatch – Saturday 23rd June 1917 - Redditch Officer walks overboard in his sleep – The Rev. Canon Newton Holmwood, Redditch, has received from authoritative sources particulars relating to the death of his son, Captain Horace Gerard Townsend Newton of the Hussars, who was accidentally drowned in April at Mesopotamia.


Basra War Cemetery, Iraq

Served In

Remembered in Redditch on

Further Information

Grave: V. L. 2

Buried:

Captain   Captain Horace Gerard Townsend Newton Next Back

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Reference

Died