BORN HULL 1890. SON OF ISRAEL AND DORAH NEWMAN, AT 38 PASSAGE STREET, HULL. A PROFESSIONAL, REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER, SERVING WITH THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE (PRINCE OF WALES OWN) REGIMENT (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED SEVEN AND HALF YEARS WITH HIS REGIMENT IN MALTA.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 05/11/1914. TRANSFERRED AS LANCE CORPORAL, TO THE 2ND WYR BATTALION. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 24/07/1917, AGED 28. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, LOUIS NEWMAN, 203135, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN FRANCE, ON THE 23/04/1917, AGED 41.
First name:
CHARLES
Military Number:
8472
Rank:
Private
Date Died
24/07/1917
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
28
