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NEWTON, Frederick James
(Service number 80020)

Aliases
First Rank Lance Corporal Last Rank

Birth

Date 05/04/1898 Place of Birth Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment 71 High Street, Timaru
Occupation Gardener
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs W. NEWTON (mother), 71 High Street, Timaru
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 42nd Reinforcements, B Company
Date 1 August 1918
Transport Tofua
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 22 July 1984 Age 86 years
Place of Death Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 151, Plot 1684
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick James Newton was the first-born of William Wilfred and Christina Ann Elizabeth (née Stock). He was educated at Timaru South School. F. J. Newton embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919. Frederick married Susannah Delury in 1928.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]; School Admission records; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council); Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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