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Military service
Service number:
D/114776
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth:
July 24, 1918
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
September 27, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
December 19, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 28.
Additional information
Son of Harry Newsome and Lilian Rose Keeble of Montréal, Québec.
Served in Québec and Hong Kong with C Force as a driver.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Defence Medal, Hong Kong Bar.
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1918 - 1941<BR> Always Remembered -
Memorial
Private AMBROSE NEWSOME, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, is one of 11 Canadian soldiers who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial, and one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private AMBROSE NEWSOME was reported to be Missing in Action in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Unknown Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Private AMBROSE NEWSOME lie beneath this grave marker, or one of the other 106 grave markers in Sai Wan Cemetery that simply read, A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR. A CANADIAN REGIMENT. KNOWN UNTO GOD. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Newspaper clipping
Montreal Star article, December 1941, containing portions of a personal letter from Private Ambrose Newsome in Hong Kong to a friend back home in Montreal. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 40 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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