Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

P00102.001
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Accession Number P00102.001
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
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Group portrait of members of the 2/19th Battalion Headquarters and Band Stretcher Bearers. 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: NX65745 Private (Pte) George William Brown (later discharged 18 May 1942); NX65736 Pte Kenneth John Norman McMillan (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1945); NX35701 Pte James Turner, of Narrandera, NSW (POW); NX35908 Pte Patrick O'Shea (POW); NX35385 Pte William Andrew Noble (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX43916 Pte Alexander Joseph Robinson (later died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 28 October 1943); NX60130 Owen Joseph ‘Owie’ Ryan (POW); NX60296 Private (Pte) Arthur Fredrick Lake; Pte Brogan; Pte Bell; NX35349 Pte James Arthur Stanley Stanger (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX55612 Corporal (Cpl) Peter Richard Wellington (POW); NX35310 Pte John William Miller (POW); NX35709 Pte Ancel Arthur Williams MM (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte Rogers; Pte Martin; Pte Lee.
Second row: Pte Clarke; NX52548 Pte Keith Harris (POW); NX58729 Pte Ronald Henry Townsend (POW); Pte Wood, (probably NX41303 Pte Leonard Bronte Wood (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942)); Pte Little; NX35392 Pte Edward Donley (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); Pte Lynch; NX31298 Pte Walter Clifton Hammond (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte James; NX25943 Lance Corporal Arthur Charles Haywood (POW); NX35822 Cpl Herbert Allan Grogan (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX35917 Pte David Thomas Maggs (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 28 February 1942); NX35742 Pte Ernest William McGrath (POW); Anstee (possibly NX35535 Cpl Lawrence Malcolm Anstice (POW)); NX35394 Pte Sidney John Ledwidge (POW); NX35763 Pte Mervyn Henry Emerson (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX25576 Pte Michael William Victor Curnow (POW); NX57575 Pte Alan Nicholas Proctor Cocks (died of illness while a POW in Malaya on 22 May 1942).
Third row: NX52546 Sergeant (Sgt) Kenrick Unwin Pulley (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX56158 Sgt William Bede Toohey (POW); NX56124 Staff Sergeant (S Sgt) John Alan Thompson (POW); S Sgt Eric Clifford Mitchell (POW); NX53545 Cpl John Blair Corry (POW); NX35158 Cpl Arthur Donald Stewart (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX36306 S Sgt Roy Edmonds (POW); NX34960 Lieutenant (Lt) Stewart Fawcett Burt, Intelligence Officer (later Captain and left Malaya to return to Australia on 15 February 1942); NX34742 Lt Frederick Gerard Ernest Neild (later Captain and KIA in Malaya on 12 February 1942); NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC (POW); NX12525 Major Roland Frank Oakes (POW); NX35149 Captain Richard Lloyd Cahill (POW); NX70190 Lt Alec Fyfe Bathgate (POW); NX7593 Warrant Officer Class 1 John Menzies Gillespie (POW); NX65750 Pte Robert Green of Wollongong, NSW (POW); NX52494 Pte James Fergus McCaffery (POW); NX51735 Sgt Christopher Guerin (POW); ); NX56124 Staff Sergeant (S Sgt) John Alan Thompson (POW).
Front row: NX56781 Pte James William Arneil (POW and later L Cpl); Pte P R Barrett; NX54087 Pte John Nicholas Holman (POW); NX27894 Pte Clifford Clarence Wright Gibbs (POW); NX65739 Pte Frederick Francis Brightfield (POW); NX65740 Pte Alfred Edward Le Duc (POW); NX53219 Pte Samuel George John 'Piccolo Pete' Boyd (POW); NX35761 Pte William John Finnigan (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Pte Thomas; NX52548 Pte Keith Harris (POW); NX30376 Pte Harold Morton (POW); Pte Hennessy; NX55429 Pte Robert William Oliver (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35998 Pte Russell Dent (discharged on 20 November 1942). Note in the background the buildings of St Paul's College where part of the battalion was quartered.

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