Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Group portrait of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men of No. 3 Mortar Platoon, 2/19th Battalion. The Battalion was later 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: NX51511 Private (Pte) Edwin Redfern (died of illness while a POW in Burma on 25 May 1944); NX50196 Pte Maurice James Hearn (POW); NX55096 Pte William Roy McRitchie (POW); Pte Doyle, either NX49746 Pte Athol Alister Doyle (died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 5 November 1943) or NX35361 Pte Edward Arthur Doyle (died in the POW camp at Sandakan, north Borneo on 15 February 1945); NX52352 Sgt John Richard Perfect (POW); NX60130 Owen Joseph ‘Owie’ Ryan (POW); Pte Ford, either NX32845 Pte Frank Osterley Ford (POW) or NX25447 Pte Robert Ford (POW); NX35648 Corporal (Cpl) Marscus Leo Fitzsimon (POW); NX35523 Pte Ivan Richard Carnegie (KIA in Malaya on 18 January 1942); NX52964 Pte (later Cpl) Albert Edward Flint (died at the POW camp at Sandakan in northern Borneo on 10 June 1945); NX55933 Pte Frederick James Stephens (POW); Thomas.
Second row: Sgt J Heydon, either NX35497 Sgt John Dominick Heydon (POW) or NX35499 Sgt James Patrick Heydon (POW); Wright, either NX35877 Pte Cyril Wright (died on 8 June 1945 in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo) or NX52553 Pte James Patrick Wright (POW); NX52477 Sgt (later Lieutenant) Neville Ford Douglas (POW); NX54110 Lieutenant Gordon Roy Bennett (POW); NX34869 Captain Charles Fallaw (KIA at Parit Sulong, Malaya on 22 January 1942); NGX141 Sgt Ronald John Pascoe (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX55163 Sgt Leonard William Hodgson, Mortar Platoon (POW); Sgt J Heydon, either NX35497 Sgt John Dominick Heydon (POW) or NX35499 Sgt James Patrick Heydon (POW).
Third row: NX58332 Pte Gordon Scott McGuffin (POW); NX35508 Pte Charles Henry Overs (died of illness while a POW in Burma on 9 June 1942); NX53608 Sgt James Adler (POW); NX59483 Pte Frank Brett (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte Morgan, either NX49175 Pte John Glanffiudd Thomas Morgan (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 2 February 1942) or NX30742 Pte Stanley Frederic Charles Morgan (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 18 January 1942); NX34341 Pte Joseph Roy Welsh (POW); NX52751 Pte Leonard Cyril Freeman (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte McCarthy; Pte Craig; NX53833 Cpl Hector Arthur Martin (died of illness as a POW in Thailand on 18 June 1943); NX35976 Cpl Frank Edward Bowditch (KIA in Malaya on 18 January 1942);
Front row: NX52555 Pte William Patrick Kennedy (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya 22 January 1942); NX33171 Pte Eric Duckwork Bolton (died in the POW camp at Sandakan, north Borneo on 22 June 1945); NX59687 Cpl Ronald Stewart Bathurst (died of illness while a POW in Japan on 27 October 1944); NX23144 Pte George Archibald Kirkby Fullerton (died of illness while a POW in Malaya on 5 September 1942); NX33377 Pte Leo Vincent Scully (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte Lewis; NX33064 Pte Gordon Harold Joseph Isom (reported missing, presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX33092 Pte Alfred Nolan (POW); Pte Craig.