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Corporal Leslie Allan Newman (Service No:SX4773) enlisted in the AIF on 10 June 1940 as a Private attached to 2/6 Field Ambulance - graded Cook - and  served in the Middle East (29 December 1940 - 24 March 1942). Appointed Corporal on 20 July 1943, he served with SA Line of Communication Provost Coy and 6th Australian Workshop and Park Coy. Corporal Newman was attached to 2/6 Field Ambulance at Discharge on 24 December 1944. Older brother Albert (Service No:4570) served in WWI.

Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1903, Les was eighth of nine children of Albert (Harry) Henry Newman (b1859 in Gawler, South Australia) and Ellen Josephine Critchley (b1865 in Kanmantoo, South Australia). Harry was Storekeeper in Jamestown when he and Ellen married in Peterburg in 1893. They lived in Peterburg before moving to Broken Hill, NSW in the mid 1890s. Harry was a Storkeeper at Acacia Siding via Broken Hill until 1897 when he and Ellen returned to South Australia with their children. By 1900 the family had settled in Adelaide, where Harry worked as a Watchman.

Les worked as a Carrier in Adelaide where, in 1926, he married his first wife Alma Amy Tame (b1909 in Adelaide, South Australia). Amy died in 1933, and in 1935 Les was a Widower with two small daughters when he remarried - Elvira (Trixie) Mavis Trixie Lines (b1913 in Adelaide, South Australia). Les and Trixie settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family and Les worked as a Carrier and, following his Discharge from the Army, as a Driver. Les died in 1960 and Trixie in 2010.