Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 229

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name HUGH FRANCIS PERCEVAL NEWHOUSE (Pt Off)

Roll Number 2065 Died 15:01:1941

Lef SES 1932

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1924

Where NORTHORPE, LINCS Serving with 49 SQN, BOMBER CMD, R.A.F.V.R.

Age 28

Buried Buckland St. Mary’s Churchyard, Oxon Remembered St. Mary the Virgin Church, Buckland Memorial, St. Peter’s Church, Bournemouth (Wooden Panel), and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial Born Berkshire 1913, the middle of three SES brothers, sons of a clergyman. One of his other brothers was also lost in this war. He was a House Prefect, in the Play, and in the ‘Special’ Form. ‘Few who knew him well will never forget “Harry” Newhouse. “Little Sunbeam”, the writer dubbed him in private and it was no misnomer, for his was one of the most loveable and engaging of personalities, those who knew him could not fail to recall also that bright, smiling face and merry infectious laugh’ (Kenneth Menzies, his Housemaster). From 1933-8 he was a member of the Metropolitan Police Force but with the outbreak of war he joined up with the RAFVR to train as a Pilot Officer in 1939. In 1940 he was under probation in the General Duties Branch before being assigned to Squadron 49, Bomber Command flying Hampden Bombers. He was killed in action, returning from a raid over Wilhelmshaven and an unsuccessful search for the German Pocket Battleship ‘Tirpitz’. Newhouse’s aircraft crashed near the village of Northorpe in Lincolnshire while trying to land at his home base at Kirton Lindsey. ‘Crashed at Northorpe, Lincs when control was lost avoiding buildings returning from a raid on Wilhelmshaven’ (Official Report).