WW2 Veteran Col Phillip Newton collection of his medals and personal items. He was a main driving force for a ...

WW2 Veteran Col Phillip Newton collection of his medals and personal items. He was a main driving force for a Suez Medal, he campaigned for many years to get the medal awarded, sadly his was given after his death. This named medal is a tribute to a dedicated Military figure.

1) Original photograph of Major P S Newton, Moascar, Canal Zone, Egypt, July 1952 on being awarded the MBE when he was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Suez Canal North District in El Ballah, Egypt, and from 16.10.1951 HQ 1st Infantry Division District at Ferry Point, Ismalia (MBE)
2) Original photograph of Philip Sidney Newton (Lt Col, Commanding officer Royal Sussex Regiment 1960-1962 (Holywood, Northern Ireland, later Shorncliffe) - or is this after promotion to full colonel on 09.08.1965, seniority 19.08.1964)?
3) 12 inch diameter Solid silver salver “Pip Newton with grateful thanks from The Museums of The British Army 1972-1989”
4) 4.5 inch Solid Silver dish “Colonel Pip Newton 1988-1998”
5) Plated Silver Salver “Goodbye H & C January 1956” (this must have been a gift from friends when he was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), War Office (London))
6) Solid Silver salt spoon
7) 3 small salt spoons, 2 being solid silver
8) Plated Silver Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Mustard Pot and spoon
9) Plated Silver Salt and Pepper Mills
10) Plated Silver Sugar Shaker
11) Plated Silver Salt and Pepper shakers
12) Parachute Regiment beret and badge
13) 2 separate Parachute Regiment cap badges
14) 8 Miniature Medals and the Order of Orange-Nassau pin
15) Major P S Newton's Suez Canal Zone Medal, 1951-1954, awarded in June 2003 after 25 years of campaigning for the veterans by my father. Because of his campaign, he was awarded the medal, rather than the GSM bar. After his death his daughter, Anne, joined the campaign
16) Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal following service in Borneo in 1964/5 when he was General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 17th Division, Land Forces Borneo (Kluang, Malaya & Labuan, Borneo)

2001 Parliament announcement - Andrew F. Bennett (Denton and Reddish): I am grateful for the opportunity to raise, in a short debate, the Government's failure to recommend or the Queen to award campaign medals to those who served in the Suez canal zone between 1951and 1954. I had hoped that there would be more time for the debate because many other hon. Members are concerned about the issue. I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Member for Wentworth (Mr. Healey) is present; no doubt he will hope to speak, and he has my permission and that of the Minister to do so briefly. My hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Cryer) has also raised questions about the matter. I place on the record my appreciation of my constituent Mr. Davenport, who has been keeping me up to speed on the issue, and of the late Pip Newton, who led the delegation to press the case with my hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces, 18 months or so ago, when my hon. Friend was a junior Minister. Mr. Newton worked extremely hard to press the campaign. I also wish to record my appreciation for Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Golder and Mr. Radford for all their work in documenting the case.

2003 Daily Telegraph article - Thousands of British troops who served in the Suez canal emergency will finally be honoured, the government will announce tomorrow. The Queen has given royal assent to the issuing of a General Service Medal with a special clasp for veterans who served in Egypt from 1951-54. The MOD will spell out plans tomorrow to produce the medals. Veterans could get them as early as next month. An estimated 200,000 British troops served in the canal zone during the emergency - which preceded the Suez crisis of 1956 - and more than 300 people were killed. Campaign medals are not normally awarded more than five years after a conflict, but the prime minister, Tony Blair, has acknowledged the operation. The emergency in Oct 1951 when the Egyptian government unilaterally overturned a 1936 treaty with London that governed the number of British troops in the canal zone, triggering an anti-British guerrilla campaign. 

Col Newton Career

22.10.1939 commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment
11.11.1939 - 1939 Regimental Depot, The Royal Sussex Regiment (Chichester)
1939 - 29.05.1940 Training Centre, The Royal Sussex Regiment (Seaford)
30.05.1940 - 08.1941 5th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Tetbury, then Thorn, Yorkshire, then Seaford, then Brasted, then Westerham, and finally Ringwold, near Dover)
08.11.1940 - 07.02.1941 Second-in-Command of a Company
08.02.1941 - 08.1941 Company Commander
08.1941 - 14.03.1942 Commandant, 44th Divisional NCO School (Bridge, near Canterbury, from 01.1942 Tonbridge)
15.03.1942 - 25.04.1942 Commandant, 44th Divisional Battle School (Tonbridge)
26.04.1942 - 09.1942 Company Commander, 5th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (UK, Western Desert)
09.1942 - 12.1942 Staff Captain, 133rd Lorried Infantry Brigade (Western Desert)
01.1943 - 10.1943 Middle East Officers' Cadet Training Unit (Acre, Palestine)
10.1943 - 01.1944 Force 133 (as proposed Liaison Officer with the partisans in Greece; on the cancellation of this operation, he returned to the UK)
02.1944 - 07.1944 2nd Special Air Service Regiment (Ayr, Scotland & Ainsdale)
08.08.1944 - 07.12.1944 Staff Captain, 21st Army Group (Normandy, France & Brussels, Belgium) [embarked for Normandy 27.07.1944]
12.1944 - 01.1945 attached to HQ 43rd Infantry Division on the Dutch-German border (for a month)
04.01.1945 - 05.07.1945 Staff College, Camberley (psc)
01.08.1945 - 18.09.1945 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG) (Wehrmacht), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) (Bad Oeynhausen) [responsible for the disbandment of the German Army]
29.10.1945 - 06.10.1946 Deputy Assistant Military Secretary (DAMS), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) (Bad Oeynhausen)
07.10.1946 - 01.03.1948 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) (Bad Oeynhausen)
03.1948 - 04.1948 parachute course (Aldershot)
05.1948 - 11.1948 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Itzehoe & Hildesheim)
11.1948 - 12.1948 company commander's course (Warminster)
12.1948 - 12.1950 Adjutant, 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (TA) (London)
05.02.1951 - 14.12.1952 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Suez Canal North District in El Ballah, Egypt, and from 16.10.1951 HQ 1st Infantry Division District at Ferry Point, Ismalia (MBE)
12.1952 - 01.1955 Company Commander, 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Canal Zone, Tidworth (UK) & Minden, Germany)
08.01.1955 - 24.01.1957 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), War Office (London)
02.1957 - 02.1958 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Korea & Gibraltar) (initially Officer Commanding, A Company, from 07.1957 Second-in-Command of the Battalion)
02.1958 - 04.1960 Officer Commanding, The Depot, The Royal Sussex Regiment (Chichester)
06.05.1960 - 17.09.1962 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Holywood, Northern Ireland, later Shorncliffe)
17.09.1962 - 10.01.1964 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ Gurkha Division, Malaya Area (Serembang)
11.01.1964 - 09.05.1965 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 17th Division, Land Forces Borneo (Kluang, Malaya & Labuan, Borneo)
09.07.1965 - 10.1968 Colonel General Staff (Combat Development), Ministry of Defence (London)
11.1968 - 11.1970 UK Representative at the United States Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
12.1970 - 19.08.1972 Colonel (M3), Ministry of Defence (London)
Secretary of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, 1972-1989. Honorary Curator of The Staff College Museum, Camberley, 1989. FMA (1986). FRSA.