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Wrong Man Identified - Ashow War Memorial - Frederick Newton


ianshuter

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The book identifies the Frederick Newton on the Ashow plaque as Gunner 128602 Frederick NEWTON who lived in nearby Warwick and is listed on two war memorials there.

However when composing his page we could find no evidence that he was ever in Ashow and further research led us to L/Cpl 9311 Frederick Telfare NEWTON, 2nd Bn Coldstream Guards who is listed on the 1901 and 1911 Ashow Census returns and was baptised there in 1906, he has a complicated family background that we are still investigation but we have concluded his military details - he died very early in the war 9 Sep 1914 having been wounded during the First Battle of the Marne. Here is his page.

You will also see on the plaque the name Albert Malcolm, we are still researching him. The book lists Albert Victor Sadler Malcolm but he was from Bromley in Kent and again we found nothing to link him to Ashow or Warwickshire as a whole. At this stage we believe he was added to the book because he is the only Albert Malcolm in CWGC records.

Also the name Frederick Edward should read Frederick EdwardS who lived in Ashow

https://www.swfhs.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3129:ashow-wm&catid=17:ww1-war-memorials&Itemid=4269

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Edited by ianshuter

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