Jack Sidney Newson

A Lance Corporal with the 6th Battalion, Jack died on 10th of September 1944 aged 21. 

Jack was born at Carlton Colville on 7 November 1922, a son of Harry Stanley and Constance Mary Newson. In 1939 his family lived at Grove Farm, Grove Road, Carlton Colville, and Jack was a farmer and market grower assisting his father at their farm. 

On 10 September the battalion were south of Geel, and plans were developed during the day to attack and take Geel. The battalion were heavily engaged all day and the battalion’s casualties were one officer and 30 men killed, six officers and 67 men wounds, of whom four later died, and 42 men missing. 

Jack was reported missing and later found to have been killed in action. Initially he was buried at Tongerloo, near Geel, and, in 1945, he was reburied at Geel War Cemetery.