EVENTFUL CAREER OF FORMER PETTY OFFICER
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The principal figure in a family reunion today, which brought three generations together after 24 years, was a man who held been decorated in three major sea battles of two wars, was held for three and a-nalf years in secret Japanese interrogation camps and who was officially presumed to be dead during that period until rescued by the Allies in September, 1945. He is ex-Chicl Petty Officer Harold Newman, a 53-yoar-old veteran of Jutland, the River Plate and the Battle of,the Java Sea, who with, his opera singer wile and son and daughter arrived at Whenuapai by air from England this morning to settle in Auckland. Mrs Newman was reunited here with her parents, Mr and Mrs- Webber, who emigrated from Cornwall 24 years ago, their daughter remaining”in England. Bronzed, and looking younger than his eventful 53 years, Mr Newman bears no mark of the horrors suffered at Japanese hands.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1947, Page 5
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