Profile

NEWCOME, Charles Henry
(Service number 48995)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	21 August 1877	Place of Birth	England

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Arcade, Timaru
Occupation	Contractor
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	F. NEWCOME (father), 76 Fensberry (Finsbury?) Pavement, London E.C., England
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	26th Reinforcements, G Company (part)
Date	9 June 1917
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Rifle Brigade

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	28 January 1943	Age	65 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 132, Plot 315
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Henry Newcome married Elizabeth Butterworth in 1917 at St Mary's Church, Timaru. He returned to New Zealand in March 1919 per the "Athenic".

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 March 2019]; Sun, 8 March 1919 (Papers Past) [11 March 2019]; Timaru cCemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [17 March 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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