Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Corporal W. J. Newman, Army Cyclist Corps, late Somerset Light Infantry, who died on 1 April 1919

1914 Star (8050 Pte., 1/Som. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8050 Cpl., Som. L.I.) extremely fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Private William James Newman, 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 August 1914. He later transferred to the Army Cyclist Corps as Private 1120. He died on 1 April 1919, aged 31 years. He was buried in the Winchester (Old Hill) Cemetery and was the son of Mrs Chappell of Clerkenwell and husband of Ellen Newman of 65 Hyde Street, Winchester. With original slips to accompany the British War and Victory Medals and Memorial Plaque (this not with lot); together with copied m.i.c. and some research and a modern photograph of his headstone.