Family Search: Private Peter Newlands was born on 12 December 1889, in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of R. Campbell. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as machinist helper, michigan central railway in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. He died on 26 December 1915, in Voormezele, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 26, and was buried in Voormezele, Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
Brother of Annabella Newlands, of Auchterarder, Scotland.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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