764 Private Cecil NEWSOME, a 20 year old Farmer from Meerscham Vale, Richmond River, New South Wales. He enlisted on 3 September 1914 and was allotted to the 9th Battalion, G Company which embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A5 Omrah on 24 September 1914. During the Gallipoli Campaign he was Wounded in Action, 1 May 1915. He subsequently Returned to Australia 16 May 1917.

Sydney Mail, 19 May 1915, p. 9.