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Newport's War Dead formerly Newport, Monmouthshire, UK Dedicated to the war dead of Newport City, Gwent formerly Newport, Monmouthshire lost in all confrontations. The majority of names on this website have originally come from two Rolls of Honour books held at the Reference Library in Newport, Gwent. There is one for each world war and I recognise that there are mistakes in both of them which will be repeated here, as well as some names will be omitted unintentionally but can be rectified if I am informed. The details supplied by both books have been supplemented by further information obtained from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website as well as the addition of photographs of the individuals if they can be obtained or of their graves or of a memorial in their name. It should be noted that with some names, I have been unable to find any trace of them on the CWGC website and other names seem to have little or no connection with Newport. I trust the integrity of the original researchers and not knowing the criteria that they laid down to consider someone as being one of Newport's War Dead, I have not removed any of the original names as listed in both books. I have how ever found many more names that should have been included but were not and they are now in this data base. "at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them (by name)" This web site recognises the work done by Mr Mike Etchels in compiling the names for the World War II book and an unknown author for the World War I book and without the effort that these persons put into their books, then this web site would not have happened.
The lists under the letters below gives the Surname, Christian names, Age, Date of Death, Service, Number, Rank, Awards (in bold text), Next of Kin, where buried or where listed on a memorial, grave number or plaque number and where else listed on a local memorial ie. school. The data base at present holds approximately the names of nearly 2900 Newport's War Dead up to the death of David Denbury in Iraq in 1991. All the information is as known and will not be complete and I would welcome further information about any of these persons. Information about the persons from the Commonwealth War graves Commission website
Newport's Roll of Honour Click on the Alphabet below for the surnames of Newport's War Dead ____________________________
To view the pages from both Roll of Honour Books and some casualties click the buttons below
World War One World War Two Public Memorials Young Service Casualties Female Casualties Young Civilian Casualties
Please sign the Guestbook page CLICK HERE. Your comments about the website are welcomed and in particular any about the casualties who may have been related or friends. 20th October 2007 The music playing is the "Green Fields of France" or also known as "Willie McBride" written and sung by Eric Bogle. For the lyrics of this song please click... HERE With special thanks to Mr Ronald Pope at Christchurh cemetery, Newport for showing me where quite a number of war graves lie and pointing out some interesting facts that led me to some other unrecognised war dead and Mr Billy McGee for the amount of ships photographs that he sent me.
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