Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private F. J. Newey, Gloucestershire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (32521 Pte., Glouc. R.) extremely fine (2) £40-60

Francis Joseph Newey was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, he died in Salonika on 13 October 1918, aged 28 years. The son of Thomas William and Margaret Newey of Moor End Lane, Erdington, Birmingham; he was buried in the Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece.