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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Newton Edward John
|Army number=1087540
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered Q1 1908, Bellingham, Northumberland.
|Age=35 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery.  Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Died 9/1/1943.
|Company/Battery=Not yet confirmed.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Not yet confirmed.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=No details yet.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 9/1/1943 - cause of death not yet ascertained.  Buried in Thorneybrurn (St Aidan) Churchyard.  Headstone inscription - "HIS SUN WENT DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY".
|Home address=Son of Thomas Charlton Newton and Margaret Dodd Newton, of Greenhaugh.
}}