Studio portrait of 4294 Private (Pte) Daniel John Newman, alias Daniel John Smith, 30th Battalion ...

Studio portrait of 4294 Private (Pte) Daniel John Newman, alias Daniel John Smith, 30th Battalion of Urunga, NSW. A labourer prior to enlistment, Pte Newman was 37 when he enlisted on 2 June 1916. He embarked from Sydney aboard SS Port Nicholson on 8 November 1916. He was wounded by shell fire on the Menin Road near Hooge Crater on 19 September 1917 and died soon after at a nearby dressing station. Pte Newman is buried at the Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ypres. Investigations by Army Base Records in the years following his death finally revealed that Newman had enlisted under an alias, and that his wife was unaware of his enlistment. In a letter to Army Base Records in 1941, Newman's daughter Mary wrote "Would it be possible for my Mother to have a Widows Broach (sic) It was almost eight years before we could prove our claim, because we were not able to find out the name my Dad enlisted under". In 1959 it was revealed that the surname Newman was in fact, an alias as well, and that his birth name was Herman Richard Nothdurft, son of August Nothdurft.