Name
Samuel William Newberry
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/11/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
122256
Royal Field Artillery
“D” Battery 46th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 4 to 6 and 162
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green, All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Samuel was the son of Matthew and Jane Newberry of the Duke of York public house, Croxley Green. They put an advert in the Watford Observer of 24 November 1917 to thank friends for their sympathy.
Samuel was born on 18th December 1891 in Leicestershire and christened in Chesterfield on 5 June 1892. In 1911 the Newberry family lived at 66 Church Street, Rickmansworth. At that time, Matthew was a steam crane driver for a gravel company and Samuel, aged 19, was a steam crane fireman.
Samuel married Lilian Lucy Bubb at Rickmansworth on 12th November 1916 and they lived at Cemetery Lodge, Rickmansworth. Samuel’s brother John was killed in 1918. The Army paid Lilian £3 10s 9d and a war gratuity of £8. In addition, Samuel bequeathed £100 to his widow.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Gunner Samuel Newberry served in ‘D’ Battery, 46th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
General Plumer had ordered vigorous counter-battery work should be carried out by the artillery of the Second Army from 31st October 1917.
Samuel was killed in action in intermittent hostile shelling throughout the day in the Messines Sector during the Third Battle of Ypres on 3rd November 1917.
Additional Information
Brother of Driver John Henry Newberry who died in Mesopotamia on 25 Aug 1918 and who is also commemorated on these memorials.
Samuel and his brother John are also commemorated on the family headstone in Rickmansworth (Chorley Road) Cemetery. Their inscription reads:
OUR DEAR SON (Matthew & Jane Newberry) GUNNER S. W. NEWBERRY, WHO FELL IN ACTION NOV. 3RD 1917. AGED 25 YEARS.
ALSO OF JOHN HENRY NEWBERRY, BROTHER OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED IN MESOPOTAMIA AUG. 26TH 1918, AGED 21 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson, Croxley Green in the First World War, Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
