MR RAMSAY NEWTON

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 6

MR RAMSAY NEWTON

BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED OF ' WOUNDS. Mr. A. W. 'Newton, Norwegian Consul in Wellington, and very well known in connection with> social and amateur theatrical matters here, and Mrs. Newton will have many sympathisers at the news of the reported death of their son, Mr. . Eamsa.y Newton, who left Wellington aa a member of the Mounted Infantry with tile Main Expeditionary Force. Mr. Newton is aware that

he was in Gallipoli on August 0, and was wounded three days later in the hig, advance ,on t!iat date, but until yosterday.no further news'had beeri received. Though' inquiries had been made through the Records Office no confirmatory news either of the younc man ha vine been wounded or killed was ob-

tainable. Yesterdf.y, however, the following letter was received by Mrs. Newton from Trooper A. Holmes (who was in the same platoon with Troopor Newton), written from Blackpool. England, on Ootober 15, leaving little doubt that Trooper Newton had died, for his country:— /

"Dear Mrs. Newton,—Your son and I were in the same action and lived and.-sleet together the whole time on the Gallinoli Poninimla. Before we went out on the 6th August, we each gave the other the _ addn>ss of our respective mothers, in. if 1 may name it so, expectation or something happening, and promised to write to tlio people of tho one that didn't get, through. "Ramsay was bv my side for tho three days preceding his being' hit, and a firmer or nobler comrade no man could wish to have, unselfish, cheerful, absolutely great-hearted boy, a oredit to'anyone. He was hit at dawn, after n. terrible night, in the neck and shoulder. As usual, reokless of danger, he was half out of the trench beforo I saw him, and I crabbed to pull him back—too late—and I was just in fime to catch him in my arms. With a great effort of will he pulled his senses together and I helped him out of the trench. We wore ntder orders'not to leave the trench, so he had to nroceed alono t<i the drossiug station, where, I heard • afterwards, he died mercifully unconscious. The :reasou I ( did not seo him again was I myself got wounded through the jaw :.nd got taken aiva.v to England quite unaware lie was dead and until a few weeks agOj I never knew. He died a, .hero's death and the world has lo6t one of its hearted gentlemen. \ ""

"I will como and see you if I ever live to come to Now Zealand again. I feel his loss as a friend, but my sympathy goes out to you, his mother," because of my own mother, I remember oven as a child, my own mother's erief at the deatli of my brother in the South African-war'. God forbid suoh murder. "It may be some comfort—be died as I should wish to die mysolf." The deceased, who was a splendid type of manhood, was_ employed at his father's works at Kaiwarra, and was bold in groat esteem by all who knew him.