Newport's War Dead
formerly Newport, Monmouthshire, UK
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Page, Harry, 3rd Welsh & 55 Machine Gun Corps., 119859, Private, WW1
Local memorial - St Mary's RC Church
Local memorial - St Julian's High School
Not dead!
1st Bn Mons web site
Local memorial - St Marks church
Local memorial - All Saint's Church, Brynglas
Local memorial - General Post Office, Newport
Local memorial - St Mary's RC church
Local memorial - St. John the Baptist church
Local memorial - Christchurch War Memorial
Local memorial - Newport Rugby Club
Local memorial - All Saint's Church, Brynglas and General Post Office, Newport
Cause Of Death: Died of wounds at 2.15pm in 14th General Hospital Wimereux (GSW left calf fractured, left hip & right heel 5/2/17)
Service History: Enlisted 18/10/15 ; Draft for MEF 16/2/16, joined Hood Bn. 28/2/16-5/2/17 wounded.
Notes: A Dock Labourer ; b.15/3/1897 ; Next-of-Kin & home address: Sister, Mrs. J. Smith, 63 Jeddo St., Newport, Mon.
Information: Mr Billy McGee
Local memorial - St Michael's RC church
Photo left: 1st Bn Mons web site
HMS Mahratta web site - click here
CLICK HERE to read an account of the bomber and its crash
Newport High School girls register with Myrtle's ending "Killed by enemy aeroplane"
Local memorial - Newport Rugby Club and St Mark church
Local memorial - Lysaght's (Orb) Steelworks
Information below from Mr Billy McGee
The Auckland Castle, 1,084 grt. (Mordey, Jones & Co., Newport, Mon.} had sailed from Hartlepool with a cargo of coal. On the 24th August 1918, the ship was intercepted and sunk without warning by UC-59 some five miles off Farne Islands killing twelve crew including three from Newport. The body of one man was later recovered and buried in Edingburgh.
There are ten Merchant Navy casualties officially recorded as being 70 years old when lost in WW1 with the oldest being recorded as aged 73
Local memorial - All Saint's Church, Brynglas and Malpas Road Evangelical church
1st Bn. Monmouthshire Regiment march down Stow Hill, Newport on the 9th July 1914. John Pope highlighted in photo and his medals and memorial scroll along with his "Deadman's penny"
Buried in grave of "unidentified"
Local memorial - St Julian's High School and St Marks church
Local memorial - WW1 memorial Malpas Community Centre
His niece Alison writes...
His plane was on fire and he flew inland so that his navigator, Ken Weatherburn from Huddersfield Yorkshire, could bail out, he then flew back towards the sea to avoid civilian casualties.
He died of burns 22nd July 1943 aged 21 in or near Carlisle.
Cause Of Death: Killed by accidental explosion of a Stokes Ammo Dugout.
Service History: Enlisted 18/9/14 ; Plymouth Bn. MEF 6/2/15-31/7/15 Heat Stroke, rejoined 2nd RM Bn. 14/9/15-17/6/16 to 188th Brigade Light Trench Mortar Battery.
Notes: 1st RM Bn. War Diary 3/8/16 reads:- "Front Line Trenches ANGRES II Sector. An explosion occurred in a Dugout in which was stowed about 100 rounds of Stokes Gun Ammo. The Dugout was completely wrecked & 1 Corporal & 4 Privates of the 188th Trench Mortar Battery were killed. No knowledge as to how explosion occurred." ; b.Pillgwenlly, Newport, Mon. 4/9/1895 ; A Dock Labourer ; Father, William, 11 Granville St., Newport, Mon.
Local memorial - Newport High School
On the 2nd June he accidentally drowned at Philadelphia, serving as a ships fireman on the SS British Tradition. Age 20.
Local memorial - St Marks church, St. John the Baptist church and entry from Newport Intermediate School for Boys Directory
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Local memorial - St Mary's church, Malpas
Prout, C G, 31st July 1917, 11th Bn. South Wales Borderers, 12489, Serjeant, BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY, I. M. 27.
Local memorial - Newport Rugby club and St Marks church
Report - South Wales Argus 1941
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