Rowland Newling

Name

Rowland Newling

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

23/07/1916
15

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
266711
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 135.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Royston Town War Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford

Pre War

Son of Mrs. L. Newling, of 25, The Warren, Royston, Herts.

Additional Information

Rowland is also commemorated on his family’s grave in Royston Church Additional Burial Ground. His part of the inscription reads:

ROWLAND NEWLING
Killed in action 23rd July 1916 aged 15 Years 8 Months.*1
*1 CWGC records 16.


Rowland is mentioned in a very thorough biography for Jack Alfred Willmott by Paul Johnson, which appears in the website’s Archive section at: http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/archives/hertfordshire-men-women-individuals-stories/jack-alfred-willmott-biography/

Acknowledgments

Paul Johnson, Jonty Wild