John Daniel NEWMAN

NEWMAN, John Daniel

    Other Name: SMITH, Daniel John - aka
    Service Number: 4294
    Enlisted: 3 June 1916, Sydney, New South Wales
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 30th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Queensland, Australia, 29 November 1881
    Home Town: Urunga, Bellingen, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Farm labourer
    Died: Died of Wounds, Belgium, 19 September 1917, aged 35 years
    Cemetery: Menin Road South Military Cemetery
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    3 Jun 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4294, Sydney, New South Wales
    8 Nov 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4294, 30th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Nicholson embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
    8 Nov 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4294, 30th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Nicholson, Sydney
    19 Sep 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4294, 30th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres

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    Biography contributed by John Edwards

    Believed to have been born on 29 Nov 1881 in Queensland as Herman Richard NOTHDURFT, the son of August Nothdurft and Marie Wilhelmine (nee Behrens) who lived at "Gowrie Little Plain" (between Toowoomba and Oakey).

    He changed his name to John Daniel NEWMAN at some point, and then enlisted under the name Daniel John SMITH, born at Bathurst, NSW in about July 1878.

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