Naval Forces Roll of Honour Jack Newall

Report on the death of Jack Hainsworth Maxwell Newall in Naval Forces Roll of Honour

“NEWALL, JACK HAINSWORTH MAXWELL, Sub.-Lieut. Drake Battn. Royal Naval Division, R. N. V. R., only s. of the late William Newall Maxwell Newall, of Liverpool, Merchant, by his wife, Marion Perrin Knight (Wharton Hall, Winsford, co. Chester), dau. of John Knight Armstrong, of Wharton Hall, Winsford; b. Huyton, near Liverpool, 1 Oct. 1895; educ. Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the O. T. C., but left to join the R. N. V. R. as a Private 12 May, 1915, and was gazetted Sub-Lieut. 14 July, 1915; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli from Dec. 1915; took part in the evacuation in Jan. 1916; proceeded to France June, 1916, and was killed in action on the outskirts of Beaucourt Village 13 Nov. following. Buried at Hamel. While at Charterhouse he was House Monitor; won both House and Harpie Colours, and swam for his House; unm.”

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914 – 1918


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