Lives of the First World War

known 1st March 1918

THE LATE CORPORAL NEWTON - A GOOD SOLDIER Mrs Newton, who resides at 45 St Georges Street, has this week received the following letter from the chaplain: "... I must have been among the last who spoke to him, as I was visiting round the gun position, and actually went into his gun-pit only an hour or so before the fatal shell struck it. Your husband was such a bright and cheery nature, so loved and respected by the whole battery, that his loss will be most severely felt; it was he who at Christmas-time killed the pigs for the Christmas dinner, and he was always ready and willing to do anything that wanted doing. Friday afternoon, when he was killed, was a beautiful bright crisp afternoon, after a raw misty morning, and it was just such a day yesterday (February  17th) when I laid the three of them to rest in Wieltje Cemetery No. 2..."

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