NEWMAN, Frederick Edward
| Service Number: | WX29017 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Signaller |
| Last Unit: | Milne Force Signals |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 23 January 1922 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Telegraph assistant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Milne Bay, Papua, 30 August 1942, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Port Moresby Memorial, Port Moresby, Papua, Papua New Guinea |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial, Postmaster General's Department Perth WWII HR |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Private, WX29017, Melville, Western Australia | |
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| 15 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX29017 | |
| 30 Aug 1942: | Involvement Signaller, WX29017, Milne Force Signals, Milne Bay - Papua New Guinea WW2 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Two AIF signallers were attached to RAAF rescue boat (crash launch) 08-5 operated by 43OBU which was sunk by enemy fire at Milne Bay - Signalman Fred Newman WX29017 was killed in the incident / Signalman Gerald Neild Farrar WX29006 / WXM6468 survived but he died in an accident in July 1943 at Geraldton, WA
AC John Francis Donegan 41879 RAAF survived after drifting across Milne Bay with his life preserver (in the water for 18 hours). He came ashore, was tended by natives and picked up by launch and then to hospital on the mainland for his wounds to be treated.
Crewmen Corporal Harry Turner 11854 RAAF and LAC John Townsend Thorpe Geappen 31289 RAAF were killed in the sinking.