NUTMAN, John Henry

Credit: CWGC

Lance Corporal

378 General Transport Company

Royal Army Service Corps

John was born in Newport on the 30th of September 1917 to John & Florence of 4 Stanley Terrace, Newport & the husband of Hazel GRIFFITHS of Bournemouth who he married in 1942.

The Germans occupied Gent in May 1940 & remained there until the city's liberation on 10th September 1944. In May 1940, the main fighting around Gent occurred near the junction of the Ghent-Bruges & Ternenzen canals, & in September 1944, it was the northern part of the city that was most heavily affected.

John was killed in a motorcycle accident, on the 2nd of February 1945. John was buried in the Gent City Cemetery in Belgium, his headstone bears the family inscription: “HE LIVES FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS”

John is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

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.