SS. Warrior

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We seek all information on Harold Newman. He was serving on the SS. Warrior and was lost in action 21/04/1917, Some 7 miles from Fratelli Rocks, Tunisia.

WARRIOR, 3,674grt, defensively-armed, 21 April 1917, 7 miles N. from Fratelli Rocks, mined and sunk, 1 life lost

Also, the same required for his brother, Arthur Newman, he was Master of the SS. Peerless which was torpedoed and sunk in 1917 and was taken on board the U-52 and was taken around Ireland and Scotland and eventually ended up in a POW camp in Brandenburg.

Peerless, 3,112grt, defensively-armed, 4 September 1917, 60 miles SW from Bishop Rock, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost, Master and two gunners prisoners.

[Administrator]

In Memory of
First Engineer HAROLD PERCY NEWMAN
S.S. "Warrior" (Whitby), Mercantile Marine
who died age 35
on 21 April 1917
Son of Charles Robert and Anne Grace Newman (nee Durie), of 31, Rawden Place, Cardiff. Born at Great Yarmouth.
Remembered with honour
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL