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Name: John Matthew NEWTON
Casualty No.: Ranks: Lance Corporal Initials: J M Service No.: 23738
Date of Birth : - Place of Birth : Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Age at Death: 0
Unit: 12th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
Former Unit(s):
Place Enlisted: Durham.
Place of Residence: Fencehouses, Co. Durham.
Home Address:
Previous Address:
Civilian Employment:
How Died: Killed in action
Date of Death: Sunday 24th September 1916
Place of Death: Somme, France.
Battle/Campaign: Battles of the Somme, France, 1916.
Locally Commemorated: No
UK Commemorated: -
Overseas Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Buried: No known grave.
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Photographs: 0
Service Records: No
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Sources Used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Soldiers Died in the Great War.
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