Private Charles Newell
Number: 9495/ 15172
Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent/ 74th (Dublin) Company, 16th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 11 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 21 Years stated on enlistment. (Born 26 May 1880 at Stewartstown, County Tyrone.)
Trade or calling: Butcher
Place of birth: In the Parish of Stewartstown, in or near the Town of Stewartstown, in the County of Tyrone
Address: Perry Street, Dungannon
Family: Single. Father Joseph Newell, victualler (formerly butcher), mother Mary Newell (nee Harding), of Perry Street, Dungannon, County Tyrone.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 6 1/4". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair brown.
Religion: Chuch of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 14 April 1900
Date home: 8 July 1901
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Transvaal, 1901 clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 15 July 1901
Place: Dublin
Reason for discharge: The termination of his engagement
Intended place of residence: Perry Street, Dungannon, County Tyrone.
Conduct: Very good
Special qualifications: Nil
On 20 February 1900 The Northern Whig reported that:
On Monday afternoon a large crowd assembled at Dungannon Railway Station to bid farewell to Troopers Charles Newell, Jas. Hamilton, and Tom White, of the B Company Imperial Yeomanry. Each of the three was presented with a pair of field glasses in a case, and as the train left for Belfast hearty cheers were given for Her Majesty, Lord Roberts, and the volunteers, followed by the singing of "Soldiers of the Queen." Trooper William Wilkinson, who left by an earlier train, was presented with a handsome dressing-case, and Trooper Jack Stevenson, who is suffering from influenza, received a case of pipes at his residence, Northland Row.
Soon after this, however, Newell transferred from the 54th (Belfast) to the 74th (Dublin) Company, serving with that unit in South Africa.
At the time of the 1911 Census he was living in Perry Street, Dungannon, with his parents and three of his siblings, and working as an architect and surveyor.
He served in World War 1 as a Lieutenant, then Captain, in the Royal Engineers, embarking for France on 14 September 1915. He died of wounds on 24 March 1918 and was buried in St. Hilaire Cemetery, Frevent, France, grave IV.A.9.
His brothers Henry Newell and John Newell also served in World War 1, Henry in the North Irish Horse and John in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron.
Tyrone Courier, 4 April 1918
Original wooden grave marker
Images of Newell as an officer in the Royal Engineers, and his original wooden grave marker, sourced from the Dungannon War Dead site, provided to the site by Wayne Starr. Other cemetery images courtesy of Steve Rogers at The War Graves Photographic Project.
This page last updated 29 May 2026.