Name
George Alfred Newman
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/04/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/17750
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
VI. D. 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials, Surbiton War Memorial
Pre War
George Alfred Newman (known as Alfred George Newman) was born in Cheshunt, Herts, in 1889, son of Frederick Chrales Newman a, Metropolitan Police Constable and Mary Ann (believed to be Snelling) Newman. One of eight children although one died in infancy.
1891 Census records George as Alfred aged 2, living with his parents, and three brothers at, 1 Cromwell Cottages, High Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
The family moved from Cheshunt, to Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey, in 1897.
1901 Census records George as Alfred (12), living with his parents, five brothers and sister May (8) at, 17 Egmont Road, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey. His father is recoded as a Metropolitan Police Sergeant.
His father Frederick retied from the Police Force on 18th July 1910, with a Police Pension.
1911 Census records George as Alfred (22), working as a Butcher, living with his parents, four brothers and sister May (18), still at 17 Egmont Road.
George married Edith Kirkham the daughter of William Edward and Marian Eliza Kirkham at St Matthews Church, Surbiton, Surrey, on 17th April 1911 They went on to have one son William Charles Alfred Newman born in March 1917, he died 10 months later in January 1918.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Kingston-on-Themes, Surry, posted to “The Buffs” (East Kent Regiment) with the service number G/17750.
Seeing action on the Western Front, he died on 1st April 1917, aged 27. He is buried in the Puchevillers British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
Edith received a widow’s pension of 18/9 a week from 15th October 1917. she remarried in November 1919 to Ernest Rupert Hearn.
His younger brother Private 499020 Leonard Lewis Newman of the Royal Army Medical Corps was killed during an enemy air raid, while serving in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
