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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.