WILLIAM GEORGE NEWTON

Born: 9th June 1886, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Baptised on the 24th July 1886, at Great Yarmouth.

Died: 5th June 1917; age 30; died of General Paralysis – over one year, at the Ipswich Mental Hospital. Served over 12 years for his King and country.

William’s mother, Ellen Louisa Rattle, of 16, Wykes Street, Ipswich, registered the death.

Residence: 16, Wykes Bishop Street, Ipswich.

Occupation: Carpenter.

Enlistment Details: Location: Chatham. Signed up for 12 years – 8th June 1904. Height: 5ft 3 ins, sallow complexion, grey eyes & dark brown hair. Tattoo – heart on left forearm. A scar on left thumb.

SERVICE:

Ganges – Boy 2nd Class – 11^th January 1902

Ganges – Signal Boy 1st Class – 20^th November 1902 – 14^th April 1905

Pembroke – Signal Boy 1st Class – 15^th April 1903 – 27^th October 1903

Tartar – Signal Boy 1st Class – 28^th October 1903

Tartar – Signalman – 8^th June 1904 – 23^rd December 1904

Pembroke I – Signalman – 24^th December 1904 – 26^th July 1905

Sapphire I – Signalman – 27^th July 1905 – 28^th February 1906

Pembroke I – Signalman – 1^st March 1906 – 4^th May 1906

Ramillies – Signalman – 5^th May 1906 – 18^th May 1906

Resolution – Signalman – 19^th May 1906

Resolution – Signalman – 7^th June 1906 – 2^nd November 1906

Leander – Signalman – 3^rd November 1906 – 9^th February 1907

Sapphire – Signalman – 10^th February 1907 – 30^th April 1907

Blenheim – Signalman – 1^st May 1907

Blenheim – Signalman – 19^th January 1909 – 26^th April 1909

Actaeon – Signalman – 27^th April 1909

Actaeon – Leading Signalman – 28^th May 1910 – 5^th October 1910

Pembroke I – Leading Signalman – 6^th October 1910 – 10^th October 1910

Inflexible – Leading Signalman – 11^th October 1910 – 4^th November 1912

Pembroke I – Leading Signalman -5^th November 1912 – 21^st February 1913

Blenheim – Leading Signalman – 22^nd February 1913 – 23^rd October 1913

Pembroke I – Leading Signalman – 24^th October 1913 – 30^th October 1913

Blanche – Leading Signalman – 31^st October 1913 – 22^nd May 1915

Pembroke I – Leading Signalman – 23^rd May 1915 – 25^th August 1915

Dominion – Leading Signalman – 26^th August 1915 – 5^th October 1915

Pembroke – Leading Signalman – 6^th October 1915 – 27^th October 1915.

Invalided out – 27th October 1915 – Tabes Dorsalis.

Rank: Signaller; Service Number: 218972.

Regiment: Royal Navy – H.M.S. ‘Dominion.’

Grave Reference:

13. 13. 28.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Maternal uncle to WILLIAM ERNEST ALLEN.

CENSUS

1891   41, Wykes Bishops Street, Ipswich.

William was 4 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Charles Newton, 32, a Ship Smith, born Ipswich.

Ellen Louisa Newton (nee Julier), 33, born Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Alice Ethel Newton, 8, born Great Yarmouth.

Edward Charles Newton, 6, born Great Yarmouth.

Ellen Ann Newton, 2, born Ipswich.

1901   28, Wykes Bishops Street, Ipswich.

William was 14 years old, a Machinist – Stay Factory. He was living with his widowed mother & siblings.

Ellen, 43, a Charwoman.

Edward, 16, an Apprentice Shipwright.

Ellen, 12.

Charles Edward Newton, 9, born Ipswich.

Arthur Albert Newton, 8, born Ipswich.

Minnie Laura Newton, 3, born Ipswich.                         

1911   off Howth Head, Dublin, Ireland.

William was 24 years old, a Leading Signalman, on board H.M.S. ‘Inflexible’, a First Class Armoured Cruiser.

William’s father, Charles Newton, died in November 1898, at Wykes Bishop Street, Ipswich.

William is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Clement’s Church, Ipswich.

H.M.S. INFLEXIBLE