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Able Sea. Thomas Newton

Royal Naval Division Hood Battalion

from:Jarrow

(d.4th Jun 1915)

Thomas Newton family grave in Jarrow Cemetery

Thomas Newton served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Battalion, 63rd R.N. Division. His service number was Tyneside Z/607. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles (Gallipoli) on the 4th June 1915 aged 32. He is remembered on the Palmer Cenotaph in Jarrow, His Grandmothers (Mary Ann Pringle) Grave in Jarrow Cemetery and the Helles Memorial.

He was born in 1884 at Hedworth and in the 1911 census was living with his wife Jenny Newton (31) at 50 Monkton Terrace, Jarrow. They had been married for six years and he was employed in the shipyard as a Boilersmith.



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