Mother: Elizabeth Griffiths, Bwlch-y-ddar
Father: Robert Newman, Scots Fusilier Guards, Windsor
Born: Windsor, 17/08/1872
Robert was raised in Bwlch-y-ddar and Llangedwyn School. He enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Brecon pre 1909. (Army records were lost in the Blitz).
He married Annie Whelton (their children were born at Wrexham barracks and Coedpoeth). He served in Malta and returned in 1914 to go to France.
He was killed during the Gouzeaucourt action, at the Battalion HQ at Rocquigny on the 19th September 1919 (acting RSM). He was first buried there on the 21st September and later moved to the Bancourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, 2/G/6.
He is commemorated on the Coedpoeth War Memorial.