Arthur John Newman TREMEARNE

TREMEARNE, Arthur John Newman

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born: Not yet discovered
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Medical Student
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Creswick Honor Roll
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Lieutenant, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Lieutenant Newman Tremearae, wounded at Rensburg, comes from Creswick, where his father is a doctor, and who belongs to a very old Cornish family. Lieutenant Tremearne is  barely out of his teens. His great-grandfather, when a captain in the Royal Navy, figured prominently in the American War of 1814. Having missed a commission in the Vic.  Permanent Artillery the lieutenant went on with his medical studies, and had not completed his course when the war called him out. His mother is a daughter of the late F. N. Martin, of the Ballarat Star. Tremearne is a tall, spare-looking young fellow, with gentle, almost girlish, eyes, but just the man to do all that is asked of him, as he evidently has done.

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