Newport's War Dead
formerly Newport, Monmouthshire, UK
Surname W
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Local memorial - Newport Rugby Club and St Marks church
Local memorial - St Michael's RC church
Local memorial - Lysaght's (Orb) Steelworks
Local memorial - All Saint's Church, Brynglas
To read an account of how Albert Wakeling and some of his crew members lost their lives....
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Local memorial - St Mary's RC church
Local memorial - St Marks church
Local memorial - St Julian's High School
Local memorial - St. John the Baptist church
Local memorial - St Marks church and Newport YMCA
Local memorial - Christchurch War Memorial
Local memorial - Rogerstone Public Library
Local memorial - Parents grave and St Marks church
Cause Of Death: Killed in action
Service History: Plymouth Bn./2nd RM Bn. MEF 6/2/15-26/10/15 Enteric, Invalided to UK ; Joined 1st RM Bn. BEF 11/12/16-24/4/17 Scalded Legs, Invalided to UK ; Joined 1st RM Bn. BEF 24/9/17-26/10/17 DD.
Notes: Mother, E., 1 Portshewett St., Newport, Monmouth.
Local memorial - Stewart and Lloyds (Lysaghts memorial)
Beatrice is not listed by the CWGC and her name is only listed in the WW1 Roll of Honour book held at Newport's Reference library.
served under the alias James Duckham
Local memorial - St Mary's and St Michael's RC churches
Cause Of Death: Died of wounds at 2.40am in 13th General Hospital Boulogne (GSW Head 13/11/16)
Service History: Enlisted 3/5/15 ; Draft for MEF 5/12/15, joined Howe Bn. 10/1/16-13/11/16 wounded.
Notes: A Fitter's helper ; b.1/7/1894 ; Next-of-Kin & home address: Mother, M.A., 56 Jeddo St., Newport, Monmouth ; ADM/171 = St.V.B. issued to Widower of Universal Legatee.
Roy Widdicombe was one of only two survivors of the SS Anglo Saxon which was sunk by the German raider, the Widder. He and Robert Tapscott spent 70 days drifting at sea in a jolly boat from the Anglo Saxon until it beached in the Bahamas, a distance of 2275 miles. After recovery from his ordeal in the jolly boat, he was returning to the UK when the Siamese Prince was torpedoed and he lost his life.
Cause Of Death: Accidentally killed by a British Medium Trench Mortar falling short
Service History: Enlisted 23/8/15 ; Draft for MEF 16/2/16, posted to Howe Bn. at Stavros 25/2/16-21/10/16 DD.
Notes: Howe Bn. War Diary states 21/10/16;- "Our MTMs fired short and damaged LONG SAP and BEDFORD ST. and also caused 4 casualties, killing PO DURKIN and ABs RITCHIE & WIGMORE and wounding LS KENNEDY." ; A Butcher ; b.14/10/1888 ; Next-of-Kin & home address: Wife, Alma Kate, 14 Herbert St., Newport, Mon.
Cause Of Death: Died at 12 Midnight in 33rd Casualty Clearing Station from Influenza, Oedema Lungs & Heart Failure.
Service History: Enlisted 14/1/15 ; Draft for MEF 9/9/15, joined Drake Bn. 21/9/15-26/10/15 Dyspepsia, rejoined Drake Bn. 2/12/15-30/12/15 Pleurisy, transferred to Anti-Aircraft Guns at Mudros 22/3/16-22/8/16 arrived UK ; Draft for BEF (Cook) 4/12/16, joined Drake Bn. 3/3/17-7/4/17 DD.
Notes: A Mason ; Next-of-Kin & home address: Father, Mr. T. Wilkins & Sister, Mrs. Lily James, 12 Lyne Rd., Newport, Mon.
Local memorial - St Marks church and St. John the Baptist church
Entry from Newport Intermediate School for Boys Directory and Memorial card
Local Memorial - British Legion Memorial, St Gabriel's church in Cwmbran
Information: By kind permission of Mr Billy McGee from his book "They Shall Grow Not Old"
Cargo ship Castlemoor, 6,574grt (Runciman Shipping Co.) had loaded a cargo of steel ingots in Philadelphia as well as 2,403 barrels of apples for Middlesbrough and sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined up with the Liverpool bound 55 ship Convoy HX-20 which left Halifax on the 16th February 1940.
The ship was sighted by the SS Dalemoor on the 23rd February in position 46’ 14N 36’ 04W and again by the SS Royal on the 25th. Nothing more was ever of the ship and her forty man crew.
The ship was officially reported missing/untraced April 17th and a Joint Arbitration and Missing Ship Committee considered her lost 25th February wholly from “Marine Peril”. No U-Boat ever claimed to have sunk this vessel. However the ship’s loss must have happened very quickly as no distress signal was ever transmitted
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The Fort La Maune, 7,130grt (MOWT, Booth Line mngrs) was sunk by U-188 25th January 1944. William Clifford must of succumbed later to injuries received in the sinking.
Information from Mr Billy McGee
Local memorial - St Marks church, entry from Newport Intermediate School for Boys Directory and memorial South Wales Argus
Local memorial - St Marks church and St Mary's RC church
Local memorial - St Mary's RC Church
Local memorial - St Marks church, Newport YMCA and entry from Newport Intermediate School for Boys Directory
Newport High School Old Boy
Local memorial - St Michael's church
Local memorial - St Marks church and entry from Newport Intermediate School for Boys Directory
Brother of Leonard above, also killed.
Local memorial - General Post Office, Newport
At 01.19 hours on 2 Dec, 1941, the unescorted Grelhead (Master Charles John Pirie) was torpedoed and sunk by U-562 two miles north of Punta Negri, Morocco. The master, 34 crew members and six gunners were lost. Two crew members were rescued and landed at Tangiers.
"He was awarded the M.M. for going out under heavy shell fire to render first aid to a wounded soldier and returned again to give him water"
Died in hospital at Colombo from a concussion of the brain, 1st July 1942, age 48, whilst serving as a Quartermaster on the SS Kasirah.
Information: Mr Billy McGee
Local memorial - St Mary's church, Malpas, Newport and Malpas and WW1 memorial Malpas Community Centre
Local memorial - Grave Christchurch cemetery,
Local memorial - Newport YMCA and St Michael's RC church
Local memorial - All Saint's Church, Brynglas and Malpas Road Evangelical church
Arthur Wreford was killed when the SS Waimarama was bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean in the famous Operation Pedestal convoy, the relief of Malta.
Wylie, John Crawford, WW1
© Shaun McGuire 2008