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NEWMAN, Leslie Arthur
| Service Number: | 14881 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Highgate, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | North Brighton, Holdfast Bay, South Australia Add tags, 26 February 1974, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
North Brighton Cemetery, S.A. |
| Memorials: | Unley St. Augustine's Church Roll of Honour, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 14881 | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Driver, 14881, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Driver, 14881, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Driver, 14881 | |
| 25 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 14881, 2nd Field Company Engineers, embarked London for Adelaide on board HT Port Denison | |
| 20 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 14881, 2nd Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver Leslie Arthur Newman (Service No:14881) enlisted in the AIF on 17 January 1916 as a Private attached to 16/9 Light Horse Mitcham, and was a Driver attached to Field Coy Engineers (FCE) when he embarked on 30 September 1916 with his Unit from Sydney for Plymouth on board HMAT A60 Aeneas. Driver Newman served in France with 2nd Field Coy Engineers, embarking from London on 25 March 1919 for Adelaide on board HT Port Denison. Driver Newman was attached to 2nd Field Coy Engineers at Discharge on 20 November 1919.
Born in Adelaide South Australia in 1894, Les was the eldest of two children of John Charles Frederick Newman (b1869 in Adelaide, South Australia) and his first wife Florence Pauline Tattersall (b1870 in Staffordhsire, England). John (a Gardener in Houghton) and Florence married in 1900 in Goodwood, and settled in Adelaide where they raised their family and John was a Greengrocer. Following Florence's death in 1916, John remarried and had another two children.
Les was a Farmer in Highgate in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge in 1919, he was a Bank Officer in Adelaide in 1926 when he married Sylvia Adelaide Bradley (b1900 in Adelaide, South Australia). Les and Sylvia lived in Adelaide (Glenelg) and in North Brighton (Holdfast Bay), where Sylvia died in 1961 and Les in 1974.
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