Name
Francis Herbert Newman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/12/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25120
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
transf. to (93913) 157th Coy. Labour Corps
12th Labour Company,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL BRITISH CEMETERY
Row C. Grave 12
France
Headstone Inscription
We Loved Thee Well But Jesus Loved Thee Best
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Village Memorial, Furneux Pelham, Not on the Buntingford memorials
Pre War
Francis was born to George and Ellen in 1883 in Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire. In the 1891 census the family are shown as living in the Causeway, Furneux Pelham.
It appears the family remained in that property as Francis’s personal belongings were returned to his father at that address after the war.
Wartime Service
Originally in the 12th Labour Coy Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.
Francis was posted to France on the 7th May 1916 as part of the 12th(Labour) Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, which, in May 1917, became 157th Company, Labours Corps.
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Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Paul Johnson