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Personal data

• Name NEWTON
• Initials AV
• First name ARTHUR VICTOR
• Place of birth Dublin
• Country Ireland
• Family Son of Arthur Edward and Mina Newton, of Trull, Taunton, Somerset.
• Education Eton College
• Extra info Flying certificate taken on Bristol Biplane at The Bristol School, Brookland, 30 June 1913

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 5th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Attached or transferred from 3rd - Bn. - Somerset Light Infantry
• Other data related to military career Commissioned in the Somerset Light Infantry, to France with the 3rd Bn; severely wounded at the battle of Aisne and Marne; after recovering he joined the RFC; returned to France and died a week later;

Death

• Wounded killed while flying; Newton was the pilot, 2lt AT Tallentire the observer (also killed while flying and also buried in Lijssenthoek)
• Date of death 20 October 1915
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery I - A - 32

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