Notes
The Roll lists his address as 344 Lincoln Road. It records that he died serving under regimental number 174943, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Sapper Ernest Albert Newling, regimental number WR/205700, died aged 28 on 1/4/1919 serving in the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers, and is buried in grave XVIII.A.4 at Les Baraques Military Cemetery , Sangatte, France. They record him as the husband of F M Newling of 344 Lincoln Road, Peterborough. The Medal Rolls record that Ernest's original regimental number in the Royal Engineers was 174943, but later changed to WR/205700. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at 30 General Hospital in France, and that his widow Florence M Newling was his legatee. Ernest's marriage to Florence M Williamson was registered in Peterborough in 1916. Ernest's birth in Woodston had been registered in Peterborough in 1891. On the 1891 census he had been 2 months old, living with his parents Frederick and Agnes in Australian Terrace, Cemetery Road in Woodston. His pre-WW1 Army service file records that he had been living at 6 Australian Terrace when he had enlisted on 5/2/1909 as a Driver in the Northamptonshire Battery of the Royal Field Artillery under regimental number 4139. He had served a 4 year term, leaving on 4/2/1913).