Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Group portrait of members of the 2/19th Battalion Rugby Union Football Team. The Battalion was captured by the Japanese in the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and most of these men were either killed in action (KIA) or held as prisoners of war (POW). In the background is the King George V School where part of the Battalion was quartered. Identified from left to right: NX12527 Lieutenant Percival Roy ‘Pat’ Reynolds, team captain and 5/8, from Cumnock, NSW (wounded in action and evacuated to Australia on 10 February 1942); NX36180 Corporal (Cpl) William George Winter, vice captain and breakaway, from Wagga Wagga, NSW (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX60195 Private (Pte) Alfred Ernest ‘Alf’ Rumph, front row, from Bombala NSW (POW); NX56118 Cpl Kenneth Eric Burt, breakaway, from Wagga Wagga (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX56120 Cpl William Cecil ‘Bill’ Loughrey, front row from Wagga Wagga (POW); NX36060 Pte Austin Mannix Galvin, centre from Tallimba, NSW (POW); NX34341 Pte Joseph Roy Welsh, wing, from Harbord, NSW (POW); NX35584 Cpl Alan Ramsay Oag, 2nd row, from Griffith, NSW (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); QX13798 Pte Joseph James Tully hooker, from Quilpie, Queensland (POW); NX58437 Cpl Jack Merchant, lock from Orange, NSW; NX34662 Captain Frederick Lavicount Harris, 2nd row, from Tumut, NSW (POW); NX35541 Pte George Robert Mann, half, from Leeton, NSW (POW); NX52135 Pte Leslie Rawson Parks wing, from Temora, NSW (died of illness while a POW in Japan); NX35771 Private Hubert William ‘Jim’ Byron, full-back, from Beckom, NSW (died of wounds in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX56057 Cpl Errol Meredith Conlan, centre, from Coogee, NSW (POW).