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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 Etchells 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.
All the information is as known and will not be
complete and I would welcome further information about any of these
persons.
There are approximately 2998
casualty names of Newport's war dead both military and civilian, 12 Allied
casualties, 3 German war dead and 1 VC recipient's suicide in this data base (27th November 2008)
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
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Your comments about the website are welcomed and in particular any about
the casualties who may have been related or friends.
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20th October 2007
The
music playing is the "Green Fields of France" or also known as "Willie
McBride" and "No Man's Land"
written and sung by
©
Eric Bogle.
For the lyrics of this song
please click... HERE
With special thanks
to Dennis Taylor, Rogerstne for lending me his signed copy of Mike
Etchells Roll of Honour WW2 book , 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, Mr Terry Underwood for the Gimlett photographs, Mr Ron Black at Newport's
Synagogue, David Woolven for Newport High
School casualties, Mr Stephen Hales for the Lysaght's (Orb)
Steelworks memorial, Dennis Bennett for NAC and Newport Rugby Club, Mr
Billy McGee for the amount of ships photographs that he sent me and
especially all the families that have sent me photographs to add to the
names of their loved ones.
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with their owners
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