Talk:Arthur Leslie Walter Newth
Latest comment: 1 year ago by RoySmith in topic Did you know nomination
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![]() | A fact from Arthur Leslie Walter Newth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 03:55, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
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- ... that Arthur Leslie Walter Newth was only 21 when appointed to command the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment during the First World War? Source: "The youngest known CO on 29 September 1918 was Lieutenant-Colonel A.L.W. Newth of the 16th Cheshire, who was 21 when appointed on 30 April 1918, and he was likely the youngest of the war" from page 109 of: Hodgkinson, Peter Eric (August 2013), British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War (PDF) (PhD thesis), University of Birmingham, archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-24, retrieved 2020-12-14
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:26, 31 October 2022 (UTC).
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