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Newport's War Dead
formerly Newport,
Monmouthshire, UK
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Update's
Below will be listed any update's that I have added
so that you do not have to search the site for any new information if you
have visited before although this will be only be general information
rather than specific.
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9th March 2010
Many photographs of the panels on Plymouths Naval
memorial added to the casualties whose name appears on them.
These have been added by the grateful
permission of Mr Chris Goddard whose own web site can be viewed by
Clicking Here.
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23rd
February 2010
Details of the death of James
McCann added to his entry
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12th
February 2010
Five ships photographs added to
casualty list A and nine to casualty list C
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10th
February 2010
8 new photograph's of ship's added
to both
Royal and Merchant Navy casualties in list B
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6th February
2010
One new casualty added, Thomas
Wheater
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20th
December 2009
Two photo's added of Donald and
Trevor Keyse
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3rd December 2009
A poem attached to an original but highly
deteriorated photo of Edward Brothwood added to his entry.
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8th December 2009
Frederick Barker, a new casualty added
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2nd December 2009
Entries from some of Newport High School registers
added to Pat Griffiths, Robert Hammett, Myrtle Phillips and Stanley
Stevens entries
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29th November 2009
Six new casualties added from WW1 from information
supplied by Steve Veysey who has also sent me some service notes on other
RN men which have now been added to their entries.
The new casualties are, Francis Baker, John
Christian, Wilfrid Griffiths, Arthur Hodges, Frederick Kelly and Alfred
Orchard.
My thanks to Steve.
Some of the details concerning the escape from the
Shaps Well Hotel in Cumbria of Harry Wappler, the Heinkel pilot brought
down by the barrage balloon in Newport have been updated following
information sent to me by Steve Simpson, manager of the Shaps Well hotel.
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8th November
2009
Photographs of Newport's Cenotaph
and Merchant Navy memorials added
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2nd November
2009
New casualty added, Frederick A
Taylor.
Fuller details of some casualties
added in the letters M - Z
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27th October
2009
Details of another Newport young
casualty added, John William Lord, aged 16.
Some casualty details between the
letters H - L now updated with the CWGC details
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19th October
2009
Some casualty details between the
letters A - G now updated with the CWGC details
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13th October
2009
Photographs of memorials to some
of its parishioners from St John's church, Maindee along with others of
the military standards that are laid up in the church added to the
Memorials web page
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7th October
2009
New casualty with photographs
added, Sydney Powell
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6th October
2009
one new casualty added, E Mapstone
and two new photographs
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28th
September 2009
New photo of William Inns added
along with some religious cards kept with the photo
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27th
September 2009
Seven new casualties added, A
Bennett, J Bailey, S Court, S James, E Morgan, S Palmer and G Vranch.
Twenty new photographs also added.
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15th September 2009
46 new photographs added of casualties from 1918.
Thirteen new names added to the database, James Bailey, Richard Callear,
Richard Cook, Fred Davies, T Harris, Henry John, Alex McPherson, Herbert
Morgan, H J Morgan, W Pearce, I I Pearce, Theo Taylor and Albert Williams
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28th August 2009
Two new casualties added, John Cashman and Arthur
Davies. 38 photographs added including one and the story of Gertrude Dyer
who was given a full military funeral.
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22nd August 2009
Four new casualties added, Chas Bailey, A Beeston, M
Sanders and R Silk. 47 photographs of casualties from 1916/17 also added
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16th August 2009
Seven new casualties added from 1916, N Ball, J D
Bevan, A Clutton, W J Hayes, A J Lewis, E J Thomas and P Watts. About
sixty photographs also added with one of the nurse Alice Guy who died on
active service in 1916
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7th August 2009
About 35 new photographs added of casualties in 1915.
Twelve new casualties added, H C Adams, T Birch, W H
Clarke, J E Davies, W J Dick, father, W J Dick, son, F Ellis, W Saunders, A A Sullivan, W
Sullivan, D J Waters and I Williams.
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31st July 2009
Ten new casualties added, A Bates, W J Deakin, H R
James, C Jones, D J Jones, N Mahoney, T G Rees, J T Simmonds, R Small and J W White.
Some casualty details updated and a number of
new photographs from the SWA added to the details for some casualties in mid 1915
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27th July 2009
Newport High School entry register page added for W E
Jackson
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26th July 2009
Photograph of the grave of the parents of Donald and
Trevor Keyse with a memorial to both their sons killed at sea whilst in
the merchant navy.
My thanks to Maurice Keyse for the photograph
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25th July 2009
Photograph of the war memorial in Shaftesbury Street
Methodist church added and to the entries of the names that are on it.
Photo courtesy of Mr Derek Everett
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14th July 2009
Numerous photo's added of some casualties lost
between April and June 1915 taken from the South Wales Argus.
Five new casualties added to the list, F Moseley,
Fred Morgan, E Rowlands, J Lawrence and F C Taylor
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9th July 2009
New casualty added, William Albert James Dawes
A number of newspaper cuttings added to the following
names, Cruikshank, Dawes, Dowling, Eichman, Evans, Fisher, Gardner,
Hillier, Hinton, Kimber, Meredith, Morris, Muddle, Overend, Paul, Pearce,
Riddle and Young.
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8th July 2009
Three new casualty added, Reginald George Paul, Kenneth Ivor Frank Charteris Norman-Wright
and William Pearce
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30th June 2009
New casualty added, John Stanton.
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29th June 2009
St Mary's RC memorial thumbnail picture's added to
the casualties names of those I can find.
P J Davies, a new casualty added
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28th June 2009
Memorial Scroll photo added to William Prosser's
entry and photographs of the two world wars memorials in St Mary's Church,
Stow Hill added.
Also photographs of the memorial to the drill hall
that once stood in Stow Hill where many men were conscripted and sent off
to war and also the once Old Contemtibles Club building which is now part
of a night club in Stow Hill.
Look for these on the "Memorials" web page
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25th June 2009
Photographs of William Prosser added along with one
of his "Widow's" penny
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22nd June 2009
Two new photographs of Ivor Ginello (Gineloer) added of him and
his family
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18th June 2009
Two new photo's added of Richard Stokes
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15th June 2009
Six new casualties with graves at St Woolos added including Lilian Kate Jones
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14th June 2009
Two new casualties added both buried at St Woolos
cemetery, P Lynch from Dublin and J Sciberras from Malta. Photographs of
their headstone and the headstone's of George H Jones, S J Jones, E
Kerswell, K H Williams and A T Wright added.
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12th June 2009
New headstone/grave photographs at St Woolos cemetery
added of William Dallimore, Arthur Gibbon, G Gough, Francis Limbrick,
Thomas Lloyd, Albert Pumford, George Salter, William Thomas, W Toms,
William Williams.
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3rd June 2009
Photo's of the graves at Christchurch cemetery added
for both civilian and military casualties. The surnames are Baker, Bayliss,
Bird, Comley, Dyer, Hipkiss, Hopkins, Jordan, Ley, Payne, Poole, Pratt,
Richards, Vincent and Wade.
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31st May 2009
Some newspaper cuttings added to the names of
John Hazell, Mervyn Howell, George Merrick, Hubert Owen, F Bennett, W C
Dally, Frank Haines, Harold Hawkins, James Mansfield, Godfrey Stevens,
Frank Thomas and Wilfred Worthy
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30th May 2009
Photograph of Royston Charles Pugh added
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27th May 2009
New information and photo supplied by Mr Billy McGee
about the sinking of the SS San Demetrio on which gunner Bramwell Ludlow
was killed
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25th May 2009
Link added from the Home (first} page of this web
site to some "clickable" First World War songs on the Veterans Affairs
Canada web site. Listen to some of the songs that the soldiers and
civilians of the day used to sing and listen too.
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21st May 2009
Photographs of S G Fox and Mervyn Howell added. SWA
stories of the deaths of John Hazell, Hubert Owen and Sylvester
Perez also added along with SWA story of the sinking of the SS Arlington
Court with Thomas England on board.
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14th May 2009
New photographs sent to me by the son of Charle
Sellick also named Charles of the memorial with his dads name on at the
MEDJEZ-EL-BAB memorial cemetery in
Tunisia.
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13th May 2009
Photographs of the Lysaght's War memorial and its
re-dedication at its new home at the steelworks following development of
the site where it was originally installed. Also added the memorial plaque
to the employee's of Stewart and Lloyds which is also on the Lysaght's
memorial.
All these photographs can be seen on the Public
Memorials web page and also a link to photographs of the dedication
service can be found under the Lysaghts memorial heading
Two new casualties added, Ronald Evan Walter Davies
and William Reginald Gill
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12th May 2009
Photo's of casualties Les Avery and Trevor Keyse and
ship photo's of the SS Jersey City and SS Lady Glanely that Harry Gwyther
and James Driscoll lost their lives in added.
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9th May 2009
James Bernard Driscoll and Wybert Rowland Gwyther,
two new casualties. Details for the death of Jack Glover also added.
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28th April 2009
New photo's of George Ferris, Robert Wiggins and
Raymond Anthony and his wife
added.
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26th April 2009
New casualty added, John Bartlett died 6th May 1918
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21st April 2009
New "Update's" web page added.
Two new casualties added, A C Hillman and A J Green.
New photo's of casualties added and some announcement's of death from the
South Wales Argus for part of 1944 as well as details of two previous
casualties added now that the correct spelling of their surnames has been
found.
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©
Shaun McGuire 2008
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