Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Group portrait, at St Paul's College, of members of `D' 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 killed in action (KIA) or held as prisoners of war (POW). Identified from left to right, back row: NX36063 Private (Pte) Colin Leslie (died of illness as a POW in Thailand on 5 September 1943); Pte Pettit; Pte Mulholland; NX35628 Pte James Nankivell Dare (believed to be one of 145 men massacred at Parit Sulong, Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35764 Pte James Patrick Gorham (POW); NX35223 Pte Kevan Clifford Cheney (POW); NX35769 Corporal (Cpl) William Edwin Ferguson (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); NX55943 Pte James Todd Mercer (POW); NX35966 Pte Leslie Dawson Thomas; NX35468 Pte Cyril Edwin Thomas Butt; NX35760 Pte Allan Howard (POW); NX35204 Pte Roy Kenneth Dowd; NX34111 Cpl Walter Richard Bostock (missing at sea and presumed dead on 13 September 1944 after the sinking of the Rokyu Maru); NX35547 Pte Robert Graham (POW); NX52481 Cpl Verdon Graham Winbank (POW); NX35656 Pte Hugh Foster Spencer (died of illness as a POW in Borneo on 27 March 1945); NX52135 Pte Leslie Rawson Parks (died of illness while a POW in Japan); NX35937 Pte Maurice Nimmo (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942).
Second row: NX35415 Cpl Barry Vincent McGinley (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35345 Pte John Hugh Sommerville (POW); NX35787 Cpl David Thomas Redgate (POW); NX35679 Cpl Claude Raymond Cavanagh (died of illness as a POW in Borneo on 20 June 1945); NX32987 Pte William Thompson (POW); NX35918 Pte Reginald Jesse Woodlands (discharged 25 November 1941); NX35156 Pte Percival Hall (KIA in Malaya on 23 January 1942); NX58246 Pte Cyril David Dilley (died in an accident while a POW in Japan on 12 August 1945); NX35472 Pte George Bousie (died of illness at the Sandakan POW camp in Borneo on 26 January 1945); NX36060 Pte Austin Mannix Galvin (POW); NX35949 Pte Albert George Robbins (POW); NX35961 Pte Roy Dale (died of illness as a POW in Thailand on 30 September 1943); NX35212 Pte Mervyn Hull (POW); NX35503 Pte John Costello (POW); NX35590 Pte Charles Arthur Edwards (POW); NX35513 Pte William George Watts (POW); NX35474 Pte Charles Herbert Wilkinson (POW); NX35746 Leven Levean Lees (POW).
Third row: NX35788 Pte Athol George Hill (POW); NX56047 Pte Samuel Henry Platt (died from an accident at the Sandakan POW camp in Borneo on 26 May 1945); NX12522 Lieutenant (Lt) Randal Wilson (KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX56177 Cpl Dallas Christopher Hampstead (escaped from Singapore and made it back to Australia); NX35203 Pte Thomas Cornelius Verdon (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); NX35671 Pte Frederick James Wilson (POW); NX32358 Pte Samuel James Langham (discharged 10 June 1943); Pte ‘Snowy’ Collins; NX35591 Pte Reginald Thomas Taber (died of wounds in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35466 Pte John Rae (died of illness at the Sandakan POW camp in Borneo on 13 July 1945); NX35935 Cpl Ian Thomas Carlyle Campbell (evacuated to hospital in China in November 1941. Later Warrant Officer Class 2 and discharged on 9 March 1944); QX13798 Pte Joseph James Tully (POW); NX35542 Cpl Keith Joseph Tunney (POW); NX35191 Pte Sidney Sterriet Burgun (POW); NX35231 Pte Leslie William Curtis (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX35396 Pte Daniel ‘Danny’ O'Connor (POW); NX35541 Pte George Robert Mann (POW); NX35262 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Patrick John Verdon (lost at sea after the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru on 15 September 1944).
Fourth row: NX35970 Pte Edgar Valentine Litchfield (POW); Pte ‘Shorty’ Burden (either NX36070 Pte Reginald Frederick Burden (POW) or NX55329 Pte Edward Thomas Burden (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942)); NX35164 Pte Jack Neville ‘Duck’ Mayes (reported missing, presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX50961 Pte Donald Angus McDonald (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX35245 Pte Albert James Hopkins (POW); NX55569 Pte Gordon Eric Broderick (POW); NX35802 Pte James William Wasley (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); NX35587 Pte Austin Geoffrey Harvey (discharged 7 June 1943); NX35883 Pte Ernest Herbert Dore; NX35619 Pte George Alan Rosetta (POW); NX35553 Pte Clarence Benjamin Rosetta (POW); NX26993 Pte Ronald Tydeman (POW); NX67801 Pte William Geelan (died of illness as a POW in Borneo on 4 January 1945); NX30059 Pte Raymond Finigan (believed to be one of 145 men massacred at Parit Sulong on 22 January 1942); NX35765 Pte Leonard George Wilder (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); NX35964 Pte Harry McClure (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX60278 Pte William John Baird (POW).
Fifth row: NX35409 Pte Charles Harry Orme (missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); NX35584 Cpl Alan Ramsay Oag (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); NX35742 Sergeant (Sgt) Ernest William McGrath (POW); NX56104 Sgt Laurence Roy Sheather (POW); NX36180 Sgt William George Winter (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX52530 Staff Sergeant Samuel Edward Cameron, Company Quartermaster Sergeant (POW and later died of illness in Australia on 21 October 1945); NX60090 Lt John Ashton Varley MC (POW); NX34771 Lt Keith Linden Westbrook, Second in Command (POW); NX34967 Captain Thomas Guy Vincent Officer Commanding (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX60208 Lt Douglas Anthony Wilson (died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 27 June 1943); NX60112 Warrant Officer Class 2 John James (Sonny) Loy, Company Sergeant Major (POW); NX55098 Sgt Oswald James Layton (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 10 February 1942); NX56216 Sgt Herbert James (Burt) Donaldson (POW); NX58438 Sgt Jack Thomas Garvin, Orderly Room Sergeant (died of illness at the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo on 4 June 1945); NX52483 Lt William George Hunt MM; NX56157 Cpl Leonard Harold McAleer (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35238 Pte William McGeachie (POW); NX35887 Sgt Walter William Spring (later Lieutenant).
Front row: NX27254 Pte Colin Robert Dunstone (POW); NX35594 Pte George Linton Hanson (POW); NX25894 Pte John Sidney Pearce (died of illness in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo on 7 June 1945); NX56122 Cpl Robert Leslie Irvin (believed to be one of 145 men massacred at Parit Sulong on 22 January 1942); NX35169 Pte Thomas Arthur Matheson (POW); NX33005 Pte Richard Clarence Tisdale (KIA in Malaya 9 February 1942); NX35510 Pte Arthur Hugh (POW); A Turner; ‘Jock’ Mitchell; NX35192 Pte James Maurice Bailey (POW); NX35217 Pte Milton Thomas Menz (POW); NX35550 Pte Terence John Kelly (died of illness as a POW in Thailand on 8 July 1943); NX36101 Pte Leonard Joseph Harrison (believed to be one of 145 men massacred at Parit Sulong on 22 January 1942); NX52481 Cpl Verdon Graham Winbank.