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NEWMAN, Archibald Carmichael
| Service Number: | 726 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Lucindale, South Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Charleston, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Charleston, South Australia, 1965, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Charleston Methodist Cemetery, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Woodside District of Onkaparinga Honour Board, Woodside R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 6 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Surada, Melbourne | |
| 16 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Battle of Magdhaba | |
| 9 Jan 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Battle of Rafa | |
| 27 Mar 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Battles of Gaza | |
| 10 Nov 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Battles of Gaza , GSW | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement 726 | |
| 9 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 726, 9th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
South Australian born dairy farmer, Archibald Carmichael Newman (Arch), was born in 1880 and brought up in a family of seven sons and seven daughters in the rural town of Charleston in the Adelaide Hills on the Onkaparinga River.
The family were respected pioneers of the district, being amongst the first to take up land there in 1837. They were known for their industry and enterprise in agriculture growing record crops, establishing lucrative dairy operations and exhibiting award winning horsemanship.
Aged 24, Arch enlisted with the AIF in November 1914, serving in the 9LHR.
After initial training in Melbourne he left on the transport HMAT "Surada" on 6th February 1915 with 59 military personnel, en route to Fremantle. At Fremantle the "Surada" took on additional troops and their mounts, embarking from there on 17th February 1915 with 205 men and 230 horses.
After further training in Egypt, the light horse regiments were not deployed as a mounted formation at Gallipoli, but rather were attached as reinforcements to the infantry divisions, given the extensive casualties of the Gallipoli landings. Arch landed at Gallipoli late in May 1915.
Whilst it may have been fortuitous that the 9LHR was the reserve regiment for the brigade’s disastrous attack at the Nek, it suffered extensive casualties at Hill 60 almost three weeks later. At only 50 percent strength it continued in a defensive role on the peninsula until evacuation on 19 December 1915.
9LHR returned to Egypt to rejoin the brigade which had become part of the ANZAC Mounted Division, instrumental in its defence of the Suez Canal and driving the Turks back across the Sinai Desert.
Arch did not come away from the war unscathed. He was wounded during the course of the campaign in Palestine, and also affected by shell shock, however he remained in service until his return to Australia in 1919.
After the war Arch returned to dairy farming, also practicing as a Justice of the Peace on the local court circuit.
Arch died in 1965 aged 75 and he rests in the Charleston Cemetery, SA.
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