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Title	WILLIAM SEARL NEWMAN
Description	William, known to his friends as Bill, was a pupil at Hemel Hempstead Grammar School from 1933 to 1935. Family ? William and Alice Elizabeth Newman, Hemel Hempstead He was in Tudor House and played cricket for the first X1. When he left school he went to work in the labs at Cooper, MacDougal and Robertson in Berkhamsted. He joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve and was quickly promoted to Flight Sergeant 1396485. He probably trained as a navigator in Bomber Command and was shot down and killed on his 11th operation which was a daylight raid (therefore very dangerous) on one of the U boat pens on the Atlantic coast of France ? perhaps at Brest. (Source: memories of Peter Hodgson, an ex- pupil ? facts need to be confirmed). He was killed on 15th October 1944 aged 20. He lived at Great Gaddesden and is buried in St Peter and St Paul churchyard in Little Gaddesden.
Keywords	RAF, Bomber Command, U-boat, Atlantic
Collection	Those Who Died
Place	Atlantic Ocean
Year	1944
Conflict	World War Two
File type	html
Record ID number	153

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