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TOM NEW

Died : 01 Jul 1917

Rank : Private

Service no at death: 17738

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Surname:	NEW
Forename:	TOM
Initials:	T
Date of Birth	1873
Place of Birth	Sixpenny Handley
Place of Birth Source	1911 Census
Address
Schools attended	Sixpenny Handley School c. 1891

Employment / trade	Woodman (1911) Bricklayer at Days
Place of work
Family (parents and grandparents)	Father - Esau New Mother - Annie Sanger Grandparents - Thomas and Anne (nee Ryman) New Silas and Mary (nee Foot) Sanger
Spouse Name	Ethel White m. 1910 Son Frank b. 1911, daughter Winnie b. 1915 d. 1919 Ethel remarried to Frank Mitchell in 1922
Notes	Son of Esau and Anne New; husband of Ethel New, of Handley, Salisbury. Tom New was the brother of Arthur New who also died during First World War

Regiment at call-up	Dorsetshire Regiment
Regiment at discharge
Rank at call-up	Private
Service no at call-up	17738
Date of attestation	-
Date of call-up	-
Area reported to	Blandford
Source	UK soldiers who died in First World War

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Service facts

Age at death	33
Date of death	01 Jul 1917
Regiment at death	Dorsetshire Regiment
Battalion at death	2nd Bn.
Rank at death	Private
Circumstances of death
Service no at death	17738
Field of action at death	Mesopotamia
Place of death

Location of grave	BASRA MEMORIAL
Position	Panel 22 and 63.
Other memorials	Sixpenny Handley War Memorial
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