The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Four: Private H. Newman, Suffolk Regiment, captured at Le Cateau, 26 August 1914

1914 Star (6392 Pte., 2/Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (6392 Pte., Suff. R.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Harry Newman) good very fine and better (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Harry Newman enlisted at Bury St. Edmunds on 29 January 1903 for three years Army Service and nine years Reserve Service, aged 19 years, 5 months. Served in the 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment and transferred to the Reserve in January 1905. On 5 August 1914 he was mobilised and posted to the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 August 1914. Probably at Le Cateau on 26 August 1914 he was captured and he remained a prisoner-of-war at Woberitz until repatriated in December 1918.

Between the wars he served as a Special Constable. Latterly employed as a Gardener, he died on 24 April 1962, aged 78 years. He was buried in Wolverstone, Ipswich. With copied m.i.c. and service notes.