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Francis Newall

Pvt
Francis Newall

Military Details

Service Number: 3600727

Regiment & Unit / Ship

2nd Border Regiment

Service Branch

Army

Enlistment Details

Residence at Enlistment

4 The Crescent , Cleator Moor

Rank at Enlistment

Pte.

Battalion at Enlistment

2nd

Service Number at Enlistment

3600727

Service History


According to Private Frank Newall's obituary, which appeared in the local newspaper 'The Whitehaven News' (Thursday, 25 January 1945), earlier in the war he had been at Dunkirk. Having taken part in the Normandy Landings, Frank Newall had eventually made it to Belgium.

Transfer Details

Regiment Transferred To

Border Regiment

Personal Details

Date of Birth

17th March 1919

Place of Birth

Cleator Moor

Religion

C of E

Address

Padstow, Cleator Moor

Residence (Census)

4 The Crescent , Cleator Moor

Residence (Roll of Honour)

Distington

Parents

Frank & Isobel

Married

Jessie nee Agnew

Children

Barbara Isobell

Education and Occupation

Occupation

Agricultural Worker

Work Address

4 The Cescent, Cleator Moor

Death and Memorial

Date of Death

27th December 1944

Age at Death

24

Circumstances of Death


He died of injuries accidentally sustained in Belgium. His final resting place at Lille is just across the Franco-Belgian border

Place of Death

Belgium

Theater of Action

Western Europe

Regiment at Death

Border Regiment

Battalion/Vessel at Death

2nd

Rank at Death

Pte.

Buried or Commemorated at

Grave of Francis Newall

Lille Southern Cemetery France

France

Grave Position: Plot 5. Row A. Grave 21

Private Memorial: Cleator Moor Roll of Honour

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