Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Group portrait of members of the 2/19th Battalion band with their musical instruments. 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: NX60296 Private (Pte) Arthur Fredrick Lake, of Mittagong, NSW; NX65750 Pte Robert Green of Wollongong, NSW (POW); NX32287 Pte Allen Vincent Clark of Ashfield, NSW (POW); NX35158 Corporal (Cpl) Arthur Donald Stewart, of North Wagga, NSW (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX56207 Sgt Frederick Claude Meale, Transport Sergeant from Temora, NSW; NX53219 Pte Samuel George John 'Piccolo Pete' Boyd, of Leichhardt, NSW (POW).
Second row: NX65739 Pte Frederick Francis Brightfield, of Dee Why, NSW (POW); NX27894 Pte Clifford Clarence Wright Gibbs, of Petersham, NSW (POW ); NX36039 Pte Stanley James Ledwidge, of Wagga Wagga, NSW, (died of disease while a POW in Burma on 19 June 1942); NX65740 Pte Alfred Edward LeDuc of Sydney (POW); NX35709 Pte Ancel Arthur Williams MM, of Wagga Wagga, NSW, (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX52548 Pte Keith Harris, of Orange, NSW (POW); NX35701Pte James Turner, of Narrandera, NSW (POW); NX35310 Pte John William Miller, of Narrandera, NSW (POW); NX65736 Pte Kenneth John Norman McMillan, of Flemington, NSW, (presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942).
Front row: NX56124 Sergeant John Alan Thompson of Wagga Wagga, NSW (POW); NX54087 Pte John Nicholas Holman, of Northmead, NSW (POW); NX58729 Pte Ronald Henry Townsend, of Auburn, NSW (POW); NX65738 Sgt Robert Halley Gibson, of Centennial Park, NSW, (died of injuries in Malaya on 17 August 1941); NX35763 Pte Mervyn Henry Emerson, of Wagga Wagga, NSW, (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX65745 Pte George William Brown, of Thirroul, NSW (discharged 18 May 1942); C W. Black.