NEWEY Harry Oliver Blay

  • First Name(s):
    Harry 
    Oliver 
    Blay 
  • Surname:
    NEWEY
  • Service Number:
    915833
  • Rank:

    Gunner

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Artillery
  • Corps:
    Royal Field Artillery
  • Brigade:
    291st Brigade
  • Unit:
    D Battery
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th August 1918
  • Age At Death:
    22
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bray Military Cemetery, France, Grave II. I. 21.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Harry and Ellen Newey, of Chesterfield, Sunnyside, Dudley, Worcestershire

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NEWEY Harry Oliver Blay Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial
Dudley Conservative Club
Dudley Grammar School now Castle High School
Dudley St James’s Church
Dudley St James’s Church Newey Memorial
Dudley War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial with the information: Gunner.

Further Information About NEWEY Harry Oliver Blay

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Harry Newey was born in 1895. He attended Bromsgrove School from 1908 to 1913. He joined up in November 1915 and went to France in January 1917, serving there until he was killed by a shell.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

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Credits: Researched by Jade Gandy and John Hale. Cathedral roll of honour books researched by Sandra Taylor.