NAM.1999-07-92-1

Booklet of printed letters sent by Harold Robert Newton (1917-1941) to his family, 1936-1945. Newton attended Sandhurst, January 1936- October 1937, spent his Unattached List Indian Army year with the North Staffordshire Regiment, October 1937 to October 1938, and served with the 5/7th Rajputs in India October 1938 to September 1940; he then moved with his regiment to Hong Kong and was killed during the Japanese invasion.

Hong Kong, Fall of, 1941 (World War Two, Far East 1941-1945)