Have You a Tiger In Your Family?

Rank : Private

Army Number : 3657

Unit : 1/5th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Shepshed, Leicestershire. Enlisted at Loughborough, Leicestershire. Served with 1/5th Bn in World War One. Killed in action France and Flanders campaign 13.10.1915, aged 31. He is commemorated on Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Further information: Ernest was the husband of Annie (formerly Thornton)Newton of 41 Cambridge St; Loughborough. Private Newton's wife Annie had to wait a year before the War Office confirmed his death. She married James Oldham, a widower with four children, at the end of 1916 in Leicester and afterwards lived at 41 Cambridge Road, Loughborough. Ernest's stepson John Aaron Thornton (father unknown) changed his surname to Newton and served as a Band Sergeant with the 1/5th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment from about 1920. He was immediately called to the Colours at the outbreak of World War Two and served in Norway and Ireland. John Aaron Thornton's son Clifford Newton also served with the Leicestershire Regiment and served in Germany, Sudan and Cyprus in the 1950s. Annie's second husband James Oldham died in 1925 and she married William Hart six months later in Loughborough.

For more information visit: http://www.carillontower.org.uk/tigers

Father of 4848174 Band Sgt John Aaron Newton 1/5 Bn and grandfather of 23045386 Cpl Clifford Newton 1st Bn.

CWGC:

NEWTON, ERNEST
Rank: Private
Service No: 3657
Date of Death: 13/10/1915
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment 1st/5th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 42 to 44.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

Husband of Annie Hart (formerly Newton), of 41, Cambridge St., Loughborough. (Taken from the CWGC site - http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1765684/NEWTON,%20ERNEST.)

Date of Birth : 24th May 1883

Place of Birth : Wheat Sheaf Yard, Loughborough, Leicestershire

Date of Death : 13.10.1915

Place of Death : Loos, France

Civil Occupation : Tuckers' Brickyard, Loughborough

Period of Service : 1914 - 15

Conflicts : WW1 - Hohenzollern Redoubt 1915

Places Served : France and Flanders