Name
Frederick Randolph Newton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
432209
Canadian Infantry
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIMY MEMORIAL
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 28 Mar 1898 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire son of Walter Frederick and Ellen Sarah Newton. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1910-12, he emigrated to Canada to learn farming.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 5 Jan 1915 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He came to England in May 1915 on the Metagama and, because of a recent operation on his throat, was not fit for duty overseas. He worked in Canadian H.Q. until he entered France in May 1917. He was standing in a captured enemy trench during the attack on Hill 60 at Loos when he was hit in the head and instantly killed by shrapnel from an enemy shell. He was buried beside the trench but his grave was subsequently lost.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
