Basic Details
Surname
Newell
Forenames
John A
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Honours
Military Medal
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide service and death details as well as middle forename. An all round sportsman (rugby, cricket, football), he was engaged to a Miss I M Robertshaw and enlisted in 1916. A member of a balloon company in Salonika, he earned the Military Medal by freeing a balloon that was under fire when 3 others around it had already been set on fire. He survived the war only to die of pneumonia in St Luke's Military Hospital in Halifax.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
England
Town of death
Halifax
Country of burial
England
Town of burial
Heptonstall
Cemetery
Heptonstall Slack
Year of death
1919
Month of death
March
Day of death
1
Age at death
32
Manner of death as stated
Not Stated on Memorial
Manner of death reference
Died of Disease
Personal Details
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial