Frederick Edward NEWMAN

NEWMAN, Frederick Edward

Service Number: WX29017
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
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World War 2 Service

15 Jul 1942: Enlisted Private, WX29017, Melville, Western Australia
15 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX29017
30 Aug 1942: Involvement Signaller, WX29017, Milne Force Signals, Milne Bay - Papua New Guinea WW2

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Biography 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.

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