Notes
He is listed on the memorial as having been a scholar at the school. The school website (see References) states: ‘Sergeant Frank Newby was the son of William Herbert and Hannah Newby of Lane end House Mossley. His father a former Cotton Operative was then working as Coal Merchant. They had four children in total. Frank was an Accounts Clerk working for the Borough Council, His brother Herbert a Railway Clerk for the London and Midland Railway Company and there were two younger sisters Elsie and Marion. Whilst serving with the Royal Engineers in the Somme, Frank died on the 22nd of March 1918, aged 27 years old.'