Notes
The Roll lists his address as 15 Dogsthorpe Road. It misrecords him as having served in the "2/4th Lincs".
(CWGC records that Private Walter Ernest Newell, regimental number 295256, died aged 26 on 12/11/1917 serving in the 4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)., and is buried in grave 17.110 at Worksop (Retford Road) Cemetery in Nottinghamshire. They record him as the son of Charles Newell of Peterborough, and the husband of Elsie Newell of 59 Welbeck Street, Whitwell, Mansfield. Walter Ernest Newell's birth in Yaxley was registered in Peterborough District in 1891. On the 1891 census he was 3 months old, living with his parents Charles and Julia in Yaxley. By the 1901 census they were living in Dogsthorpe Road, Peterborough. On the 1911 census Walter was living with his parents at 15 Dogsthorpe Road. His marriage to Elsie Battiste was registered in Worksop in 1914. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Walter as a native of Yaxley who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Fletton. The Medal Rolls record that prior to joining the London Regiment he had served in France from 1/8/1917 to 17/8/1917 with the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 290116; he served with the London Regiment in France from 18/8/1917. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died in Northampton General Hospital on 12/11/1917, and that his widow Elsie was his legatee).