Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Group portrait of members of C Company, 2/19th Battalion. The Battalion was captured by the Japanese in the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and most of the men were either killed in action (KIA) or held as prisoners of war (POW). Identified from left to right, back row: NX52474 Private (Pte) Gordon Harry Hepper (wounded in action in January 1942 and evacuated to Australia for medical treatment); NX35745 Pte Thomas Lindsay Vaughan (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); Wright; Pte Watson; Pte Crawford; NX35438 Pte George Alexander McNeill (died of illness in Thailand on 16 April 1944 while a POW); NX35421 Pte Ernest Walter Whiting (POW); Pte Cameron; Pte G Williams; NX35448 Pte William James Day (POW); NX52475 Pte James Lancelot Crowley (POW); NX35446 Pte John Tucker (POW).
Second row: NX35287 Pte Nathaniel Morrison Doughty (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX56099 Pte Ronald Charles Stone (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX35559 Pte George Lincoln Fixter (POW); NX60278 Pte William John Baird (POW); Broomfield (probably NX35868 Lance Corporal George Edward Bromfield (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942)); NX35376 Corporal (Cpl) Page Edgar Gilchrist (POW); Cotton; NX55398 Pte Arthur William Edwards (POW); NX35206 Sergeant (Sgt) Ian Hugh Florance (POW); Clarke; A Smith; NX35714 Cpl Frederick Fuller (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX55394 Cpl John Laurence Loftus (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942).
Third row: NX52468 Pte Roy Cotton (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX56154 Sgt Colin Leslie Booth (died on 24 November 1944 in Sandakan POW camp, north Borneo); NX35815 Pte John Hamilton Cheshire (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX56233 Cpl Ronald Victor Harden (died of illness in Australia on 26 September 1942); NX35447 Pte Leslie Reginald Thomas Sayers (died of illness in Thailand on 4 January 1944 while a POW); NX35456 Pte George Cecil Wells (reported missing presumed KIA on 22 January 1942 in Malaya); Evans; NX35671 Private (Pte) Frederick James Wilson (POW); NX40344 Pte Norman Francis Karkoe (POW and died 24 November 1945); Martin; Pte Bond; Pte Collins; Smith; NX35285 Pte Richard McMaster (POW); Pte Walker; Pte Holmes; NX31586 Pte George Edward Tilley (died of wounds in Malaya on 21 January 1942); Pte Wood; NX57790 Pte William Vincent Barron (POW); NX10767 Pte Alfred Manwaring (POW); ); NX35590 Pte Charles Arthur Edwards (POW).
Fourth row: NX52490 Pte (later Cpl) Ronald James White (POW); NX35445 Pte Thomas Looby (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); Pte R Percival (possibly NX72997 Pte Darcy Reginald Perceval (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942)); NX35260 Lance Corporal Charles Clive Miles (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX51985 Cpl Albert George Bowyer (POW); Wright; NX32726 Sgt James Olivant Smith (POW); NX58986 Pte Mervin Charles Justice (died of illness while a POW in Japan on 18 April 1943); NX35726 Pte Walter Madden (died in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo on 13 July 1945); NX60272 Pte John Joseph Piggott (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX20501 Pte William James Stevens (POW); NX52494 Pte James Fergus McCaffery (POW); NX35917 Pte David Thomas Maggs (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 28 February 1942); NX52469 Cpl William Gavel (died of illness in Thailand as a POW on 27 November 1943); NX35956 Pte James St Laurence McKenna (POW); NX35747 Lance Corporal Sidney Albert Weeden (escaped from Singapore on 13 February 1942 and made it back to Australia); NX35764 Pte James Patrick Gorham (POW); NX25085 Cpl Donald Dunbar (died of illness while a POW in Malaya on 30 December 1944); McGrath; Harrison; NX55430 Pte George Norman Harding (died of illness in Thailand while a POW on 5 October 1943).
Fifth row: NX27532 Cpl Douglas Herbert Faircloth (KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); Pte Hall; NX56212 Sgt Jack Lloyd Davies, 13 Platoon (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX60312 Sgt Melville Mahon Crombie, 14 Platoon (died of illness while a POW in Burma on 16 September 19443); NX52529 Staff Sergeant Clarence Harvey, Company Quartermaster Sergeant (POW); NX33624 Warrant Officer 2 Edward Walter Turner, Company Sergeant Major (died at sea enroute to a POW camp in Japan on 6 September 1944); NX70191 Captain Rewi Reginald Louis Snelling, Second-in-Command (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX34993 Major Bert Henry James Bradley, Officer Commanding (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); NX12534 Lieutenant (Lt) Alan Bruce Gollan, 14 Platoon (POW); NX12538 Lt David James Russel Glasson, 15 Platoon (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX52562 Sgt James William Kennedy Forbes, Orderly Room (POW); NX25901 Sgt Timothy Joseph Mulcahy, 15 Platoon (returned to Australia before the fall of Singapore); NX35423 Pte Edward Albert Whitley (wounded in action in Malaya on 28 January 1942 and evacuated to Australia); NX35728 Pte Richard Alfred Godfrey (POW); NX29183 Cpl Frank Hart Dempsey (KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX52199 Pte Francis Patrick Webster (POW); NX35191 Pte Sidney Sterriet Burgun (POW).
Front row: NX35795 Pte Lance Gorham Perceval (POW); NX35401 Pte Thomas Bruce Hillan (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX35436 Pte John Francis Leitch (POW); Harris; NX35386 Pte George Henry Crouch (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX35744 Pte Henry John Tindall (POW); NX35419 Cpl Allan Howard Bye (POW); NX35169 Pte Thomas Arthur Matheson (POW); NX35607 Pte William Albert Stevenson (KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); NX35799 Cpl Patrick George Joseph Moona (POW); Pte Craig; Warner (probably NX39931 Pte James Roy Warnes (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942)); Pte Buckley; NX51914 Pte Arthur Ernest Steel (POW); Pte Todd; NX50337 Pte John Joseph Gerard McCauley (died at sea as a POW in the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru on 12 September 1944); NX35174 Pte Wilfred Stanley Taylor (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX36003 Henry James ‘Harry’ Hubbard (POW).
Absent: NX52464 Lt Norman Seymour Davidson, 13 Platoon (POW). Note in the background the buildings of St Paul's College where part of the Battalion was quartered.