Newbound News: WW1

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4893 Pte Roger Irvine Newbound 5th Battalion

WW1 4893 Pte R. I. NEWBOUND, 5th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement, enlisted 16 February 1915, returned to Australia 12 May 1919. Laboure, 21 years old and single at time of enlistment, 5'8", 142lb, 36" chest, dark complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair in 1915.

Just a few pages from his digitised records held at the National Archives of Australia.

Sadly a family member has defaced Rod's medals in the past but we plan to have them fully restored in the near future. They have been proudly worn by his boys, his wife Doris and his great grandson Edward (currently serving in the RAN) in ANZAC Day marches.

LEST WE FORGET

Two brothers return from WW1

Roger Irvine Newbound b1893 seated on the left and his younger brother George William Newbound b 1895.

These three photos I took at the Chiltern Athenaeum in May 2010. The individual photos of the two brothers were probably taken from the one of them together. Have a look at the Athenaeum website, it has a downloadable 165 page pdf document listing Chiltern residents taken from burial, school and church records. It's well worth a visit if you are passing through Chiltern, VIC at any time.

Roger Irvine Newbound in Belgium during WW1

I found this on the National Library of Australia website, and have seen it at the War Memorial in Canberra.

Chatelet, Belgium. 3 January 1919. Group portrait of D Company of the 5th Battalion. Left to right, back row: Private (Pte) D. J. Mahoney; Pte C. Siepolt; unidentified; Pte Koeppe; Pte J. G. Thorpe; unidentified; unidentified; Corporal (Cpl) Box; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Cpl C. R. Pike; unidentified; unidentified; Cpl Templar. Fourth row: Pte J. E. Peterson; J. Jarvis; unidentified; Pte H. Reidy; unidentified; Pte S. Middleton; Cpl J. Maynard; unidentified; Pte W. H. Brand; Pte McPherson; Pte A. E. Young; unidentified; unidentified; Pte R. Newbound; unidentified; unidentified. Third row: Pte D. C. Mackay; unidentified; Pte H. Knapping; unidentified; unidentified; Cpl P. D. Pritchard; Pte J. J. McKenna; Pte P. Flower; next five men unidentified; Pte Didcock; unidentified. Second row: Pte Langley; Pte Kemp-Kefford; Pte G. Tatt; Pte J. W. Dinse; Pte Robertson; unidentified; Pte Parnell; unidentified; unidentified; 543 Pte Robert Leslie Britter; Pte G. J. Tugwell; unidentified; Cpl F. D. Power; Pte Dunstan; unidentified; Pte W. G. Williams. Front row: unidentified; Sergeant (Sgt) J. Skinner; Sgt Foster; Sgt Winslett; Captain E. G. Pettinck; Lieutenant (Lt) E. A. Williams; Lt C. C. Hanson; Company Sergeant Major (CSM) J. Rolle; Sgt Bond; Sgt Lovelock; unidentified.

Blog manager

I was born a Newbound and would like to help all the Newbound's in Australia find each other and keep in touch. Our family history is vast and I hope to add whatever old photos, family stories and records I can source to this blog for us all to share and pass on to the next generations. If anyone has anything they would like to share with us all let me know and I'll add it to the blog. If I have incorrect details please make contact and I'll fix them immediately. If anyone doesn't want something shared let me know and I can remove it.

I not only blog about the Newbounds of Australia but I also have a large family tree of all the Newbounds I know who descend from our convict ancestor Roger John Newbound. If anyone who thinks they are on this tree and would like a copy of it email me and I'll send two pdf documents to you; the first is a descendant chart of Roger John Newbound our convict ancestor and a descendant report that also begins with Roger John Newbound and has an overwhelming amount of information.

Lisa Ashton (nee Newbound)

lisaplainjane@hotmail.com

Blog info

The posts are stored in the order that I post them, so the latest post is shown first, it may make more sense if you start with the original post which is Clarrie Newbound celebrating his 90th birthday at the Barnawartha Gathering on the 5th November 2011, just click on Older Posts at the bottom of the page to go back.

You can use the labels list to find all posts that relate, such as all the Barnawartha Gathering posts, just click on the label and they'll all be shown on one page. I have also used labels for family members, so if you want to look for all posts about relatives that descend from a common ancestor click on the ancestors name and up come all the posts. I've gone back to Roger John Newbound b1814 who is our convict relative whom we all seem to descend from.

The photos are not all mine, I have scanned and been sent many old Newbound family photos, also borrowed some from The Newbounds of the World group on Facebook, thanks Gavin! Click on any of the photos to bring them up in a larger format. You can also right click on the photos and save them to your computer.

Anything else, just ask.