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Quote from: amondg on Saturday 13 September 25 18:30 BST (UK)

Have you contacted  RCMP ?

You could ask if they have a record of him, born 1878 reg. Wycombe Buckinghamshire, Father John Newton mother Mary nee Green.

https://rcmphc.com

I hadn't, no. Why I hadn't thought of that before, I don't know! I shall do it straightaway, thank you.

I have had a reply that, regrettably, they do not keep complete records on individual members, unless they have been donated to them, and I was referred to the following:

 Library & Archives Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

history_histoire@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

RCMP.NHQPhotoArchives-ArchivesPhotographiquesduQG.GRC@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

www.warmuseum.ca.

I have made contact and await replies.

My great-uncle Isaac Newton, known as Ike, was born in 1878 in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, son of John and Mary; he was two years older than Ben, my grandad Ike was in Hughenden in the 1881 and 1891 censuses. He attested 2 March 1896 3rd Battalion Oxford Light Infantry Regiment age 17 years and 9 months. Service number 2811.

It is believed that he emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s. However, I have not been able to find him in Canada, and I have searched again and again!

My grandad joined the Met. Police in 1909. It had been said in the family that, if he hadn't been in the Met., he would have joined his brother Ike in the Mounties in Canada.

Can anyone help find him, please?

It's a newspaper photo

Thank you. Now I have to try to think which newspaper! Trouble with me and family history, I have rarely made notes of from where I have found things!

Love the band photo joy, is your Dad on this?

Thank you. No, I think my Dad's best friend Alex (Dennis Alexander) is playing the piano.

Mark's Dad, Lewis Wells.