P/O Newton was serving with 156 Squadron. He was a crew member of Wellington III X3598 GT- which took off from Alconbury on a mission to Cologne. The aircraft was shot down with the loss of all the crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 89 X
He is remembered in Stockton on S138.34 and in our Scout Roll of Honour 1939-45
