BORN HULL 1897. SON OF ERNEST NEWMAN (1869-1934) & SARAH ELIZABETH SHEARER (1873-1938), OF 17 EDWARDS TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL. SON OF A BREWERY LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.
EMPLOYED AS AN APPRENTICE PRINT WORKER WITH HIS SISTER, LENA. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRNCE, ON 17/04/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/04/1918, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MAOTHER, SARAH. HIS MEDALS WENT UNCLAIMED.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, HAINAUT, BELGIUM.
HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER, LESLIE NEWMAN, WAS KILLED AT SEA, DURING WW2, ON 06/11/1942, AGED 33.
First name:
ERNEST WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
1707
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
10/04/1918
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
22
186 , BELVOIR STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
