Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Group portrait of members of `B' Company, 2/19th Battalion, at the Negri Sembilan Cricket Club. 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: NX35715 Private (Pte) Francis John Sewell (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX52558 Sergeant (Sgt) Bryson William Stein (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX35396 Pte Daniel ‘Danny’ O'Connor (POW); NX35928 L Cpl Vincent Harold Cassells (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); Pte M. B. McLauchlan; NX35174 Pte Wilfred Stanley Taylor (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX56221 Corporal (Cpl) Francis Joseph Leonard (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942).
Second row: NX35364 Pte Gordon Herbert Robson (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); Pte Anderson; NX56107 Pte William Burston Graham ‘Graham’ Bartley (POW); NX30842 Pte Wallace Edwin Davies (POW); NX36057 Pte Harold George Granger (POW); Pte Gordon; NX59898 Staff Sergeant James Marsden Betts (died of illness on 12 April 1945 at the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo); NX35275 Cpl Eric Harrie Clough (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX35729 Pte John Dawson Rennie (POW); NX35722 Pte William Cartwright (POW); NX52527 Cpl Thomas Edward Haynes (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35717 Pte John William Maskus (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35844 Pte Leonard Metcalfe (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX43483 Pte Roy James Morris (POW); NX55985 Pte Howard Edward Warburton (KIA in Malaya on 8 February 1942); NX36027 Arthur John Clifton (missing, presumed KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX35532 Pte Matthew Berkley (POW); NX35560 Pte Herbert Boon Matthews (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX52555 Pte William Patrick Kennedy (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya 22 January 1942); NX35336 Pte Leslie Owen Brown (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942).
Third row: NX60278 Pte William John Baird (POW); NX35842 Pte Herbert Frederick Dallas (died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 2 November 1943); Pte Allen; NX72769 Pte John Farrell (KIA in Malaya on 10 February 1942); NX35608 Pte James Patrick McGlynn (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX35609 Pte William Albert McGlynn (died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 8 June 1943); NX56142 Pte Lloyd Angus Keith Bullock (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35848 Pte Ernest Henry Turner (died at the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo on 18 June 1945).
Fourth row: Pte Lewis either NX48301 Pte David Lewis (POW) or NX36043 Pte Lloyd Lewis (POW); NX35579 Pte Herbert Graham Bucknell (KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX32598 Pte James Gerald Parker (POW); NX36044 Cpl Richard Harris Weymouth (KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); NX31452 Pte George Vincent Bucknell (POW); Pte Reid.
Fifth row: (seated left side) NX35157 Pte Robert John Demery (POW); NX35236 Pte Albert Charles Baxter (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte Atkinson, either NX59907 Pte Ronald Edward Sidney Atkinson (died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 25 July 1943) or NX58448 Pte Thomas George Atkinson (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX35947 Pte Vernon Thomas Sellwood (KIA in Malaya on 13 February 1942). Standing: NX35731 Pte James Dudley Maskus (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35174 Pte Wilfred Stanley Taylor (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX35841 Cpl John Alcock (KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX26576 Pte Albert Gilbert Surman (POW); NX36065 Pte Leslie Norman Truscott (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35760 Allan Howard (POW); Pte Walsh, either NX29859 Pte Clyde Russell Walsh (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942) or NX52003 Pte Phillip Francis Walsh (POW); NX35847 Cpl Arnold Aubrey Small (POW); (seated right side); NX35535 Cpl Lawrence Malcolm Anstice (POW); NX52490 Pte (later Cpl) Ronald James White (POW); NX54322 Pte George Ernest Greentree (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte Jameson possibly NX73023 Pte Leslie Alexander Jamieson (died of illness while a POW in Burma on 28 October 1943); NX35692 Cpl Leslie Charles Trinder (discharged 15 June 1942).
Sixth row: NX35235 Pte Harry Leslie Bourchier (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35175 Pte Kevin Lyall Tilden (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Whittle; NX34463 Pte Joseph Howard (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35213 Pte James Phillip Garner (POW); NX52531 Sgt Arthur Bernard Weaver (POW); NX65918 Warrant Officer 2 Thomas Ingram Moody (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942; NX12600 Lieutenant (Lt) Alan Gardiner Cope Ibbott (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35027 Captain (Capt) Richard Wonson ‘Dick’ Keegan, Officer Commanding B Company (KIA in Malaya on 10 February 1942); NX34662 Capt Frederick Lavicount Harris (POW); NX12527 Lt Percival Roy Reynolds (discharged 27 August 1943);NX59903 Sgt Geoffrey Bede Riach (POW and accidentally killed in Indochina on 13 April 1945, the result of an allied air raid); NX56202 Sgt Richard Edgar Norman (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); Pte Watkins; probably NX31021 Pte George Howe (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); Pte Fanning, either NX35856 Pte Clarence Joseph Fanning (POW) or NX35860 Pte John Henry Fanning (POW); NX36028 Pte Kevin Gerard Mahon (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX60333 Pte Laurence Aloysius O'Brien (Killed in action in Malaya on 19 January 1942).
Front row: NX24906 Pte Thomas William Shiels (POW); NX52371 Pte Bertram Oliver Norman (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 8 February 1942); NX27767 Pte Albert James Peek (POW); NX35756 Cpl Clifford Leslie Farlow (POW); NX53219 Pte Samuel George John 'Piccolo Pete' Boyd (POW); NX35448 Pte William James Day (POW); NX55570 Pte George Chisholm Lothian (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX54952 Pte George Ernest Nugent (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte P Smith, probably NX35359 Pte Patrick Smith (POW); NX56057 Cpl Errol Meredith Conlan (POW); NX7301 Cpl John Joseph Donnelly (KIA in Malaya on 8 February 1942); NX26605 Cpl Basil Travis (POW); NX35405 Pte Charles Frederick Berthon (POW);NX60363 Cpl Maple John Leicester Thrower (POW); NX35903 Cpl Mervyn Trevaskis (POW); NX35150 Sgt Norman Henry Healey (POW); NX55227 WO2 Valentine Charles Caspar Middleton (POW); NX35701 Pte James Turner, (POW); NX33947 Pte Henry Ernest Crittenden (died of illness while a POW in Japan on 1 November 1943); NX68840 Pte Charles Ernest Russell (POW).