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S/31181 11th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consort’s Own)
Albert Newman was born in Sudbury in 1898, the eldest of four surviving children of Harry and Susannah Newman. His father was an agricultural labourer and his mother was a yarn puller at a local silk mill. The family lived at 28 Mill Lane and later moved to 2 Byford’s Yard in Cross Street.
Albert had moved to London and was living in Marylebone, when he enlisted to serve with the Rifle Brigade which formed part of 59th Brigade, 20th (Light) Division.
In the summer of 1917 Albert’s battalion saw action during the Third Battle of Ypres more commonly known as Passchendaele (31 July–10 November) at the Battle of Langemarck (16-18 August).
Albert died aged 19 on 17 August 1917. There is no known grave and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, near Ypres, Belgium. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
A Cross of Remembrance was laid at the Tyne Cot Memorial in April 2006 and April 2009.
Albert’s cousin Harry George Wallace lost his life in 1915 and is remembered on the Sudbury War Memorial.
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