Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Place Asia: Malaya, Negri Sembilan, Seremban
Accession Number P00102.046
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Malaya: Negri Sembilan, Seremban
Date made August 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of officers of the 2/19th Battalion watching something in the distance while on reconnaissance near Seremban. Identified from left to right: NX34734 Capt Reginald William James Newton, Headquarters Company (later held as a POW and awarded MBE); NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, Commanding Officer (later held as a POW and awarded the Victoria Cross) (with binoculars), and NX34960 Captain Stewart Fawcett Burt, Intelligence Officer (left Malaya to return to Australia on 15 February 1942).