22nd Battalion
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Richard Newman (SN 659) born at Dunolly, was a married 43 year old labourer when he enlisted on February 16th 1915. He embarked aboard the Ulysses on May 8th 1915 and served with the 22nd Infantry Battalion. He saw action at Gallipoli then at iconic battles on the Western Front including Pozieres, Bullecourt, Broodseinde and Mont St. Quentin and the worst that appears to have happened to him was having to pay for a mess tin, towel and field dressing he had lost. At war’s end, he left England on the Kashmir, reached Melbourne on April 20th 1919 and was discharged on September 26th.
