SIS Newnham, Lanceray Arthur (Lance)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Newnham​

• FORENAME

Lanceray Arthur (Lance)​

• UNIT

British Army Aid Group (MI9)​

• RANK

T/Colonel​

• NUMBER

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• DATE OF DEATH

18th December 1943​

• AGE

54​

• GRAVESITE

Stanley Military Cemetery,Hong Kong 1.A.58​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Middlesex Regiment​

born 3.8.1889 India​

son of Lt Colonel Arthur Tristram H. and Ekaterina Newnham​

husband of Phyllis Edith (nee Henderson) Newnham,Downderry,Cornwall (married 7.1.1919 Finchley,Middlesex)​

commissioned Middlesex Regiment 1910​

Middlesex Regiment,France 1915 (Captain)​

Brigade Major,169 (Infantry) Brigade 5.2.1916-27.5.1917​

awarded M.C. 1.1.1917​

T/Brigadier General 1918​

Chief of Staff to GOC Hong Kong 1940​

POW December 1941​

BAAG​

arrested 10.7.1943​

executed Big Wave Bay,Hong Kong​

awarded George Cross (posthumous)​

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