Name
Frederick Newman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15054
Royal Fusiliers *1
3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 25 to 27.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book
Pre War
Frederick was the son of John and Maria Newman.
In 1901 the Census, shows Frederick, aged 8, born in St Luke’s, London. Living with his parents, younger brother Stanley and two boarders at 26, Powell St, Finsbury, London. (Civil Parish of St Luke’s). His father was a police sergeant at the Central Meat Market. By 1911 Frederick was living at 38 Peartree St, E.C. Holborn (a Sub Reg., District St Luke’s). Frederick was an assistant French polisher, in the furniture trade, to the head of the household John Charles Harding who was also a French Polisher. His parents were living at Mill Ward Park Cottages, Hatfield, his father now a police pensioner and caterer. His wife and daughter assisting in his business.
Officially recorded as born in St Luke’s (Bishop Hatfield?) and was living in Hatfield when he enlisted in Stratford.
Wartime Service
Frederick was Private 15054, 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and he was overseas from 19th September 1915.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of November 1915, recorded: “Killed in Action -.......Frederick Newman.........Frederick Newman, Royal Fusiliers, of the Rookery, fell in the battle on September, he came from India to go to the Front and was home for a time last February with frost-bitten feet; he rejoined his Regiment later, and alas was killed in the advance at the age of 23. All sympathy to his parents who mourn his gallant and untimely end. May he and other Hatfield heroes rest in peace."
Awarded the Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1915 Star.
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Newman (Mother) of The Rookery received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
*1 More correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
