NEWNHAM, Harold Walter

Gaza War CemeteryCredit: CWGC

Corporal
1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles
Hampshire Regiment

Harold was born 1896 in Newport to Walter Henry & Fanny Maria (nee WHITTINGTON) NEWNHAM who were living a 1 Banner Cottages, Hunnyhill in Newport around the time of Harold’s death. The family had previously lived at 22 Worsley Road also in Newport.

Harold, aged 22, was Killed in Action on the 2nd of November 1917 & is buried in the Gaza War Cemetery beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription, chosen by his father, “R.I.P.”. Harold rests alongside 3,216 of his First World War comrades, 781 of whom remain unidentified.

Harold is also remembered on the Newport Borough & IW Rifles War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.