Henry Newcome (British Army officer)

Henry William Newcome
Born(1875-07-14)14 July 1875
Hilsea, Hampshire
Died25 February 1963(1963-02-25) (aged 87)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
CommandsRoyal School of Artillery
Baluchistan District
50th (Northumbrian) Division
Battles / warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

Major-General Henry William Newcome CB, CMG, DSO (14 July 1875 – 25 February 1963) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Newcome was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and saw action in South Africa during the Second Boer War.[1]

He served on the Western Front in the First World War, which began in the summer of 1914, with the Royal Field Artillery for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). The citation for his DSO appeared in The London Gazette in April 1915 and reads as follows:

For the excellent work performed throughout the campaign, especially on the 10th and 11th March, 1915, during the action at Givenchy, when he directed the fire of his Battery from a ruined house with great skill whilst exposed to very heavy rifle fire. The reports furnished by Major Newcome during the engagement were of the greatest value.[2]

He was the Brigadier-General Royal Artillery in the 21st Division from May 1917 to November 1918.[3][4]

After the war he succeeded Brigadier-General William Basil Browell as Commandant of the Chapperton Down Artillery School in November 1918,[5] became Commander, Royal Artillery at Northern Command in April 1923 and, promoted to major general in March 1927,[6] General Officer Commanding Baluchistan District in India in March 1931.[7] He went on to be Major-General, Royal Artillery for the Indian Army in February 1933 and then General Officer Commanding the 50th (Northumbrian) Division from April 1928 until he retired in February 1931.[7]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1919 New Year Honours[8] and Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1923 New Year Honours.[9]

References

  1. ^ "No. 27282". The London Gazette. 8 February 1901. p. 981.
  2. ^ "No. 12797". The Edinburgh Gazette. 20 April 1915. p. 597.
  3. ^ Snowden 2001, p. 75.
  4. ^ Oldfield, Paul (2014). Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: August 1914–April 1915: Mons to Hill 60. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1783030439.
  5. ^ "No. 31026". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 November 1918. p. 13864.
  6. ^ "No. 33255". The London Gazette. 8 March 1927. p. 1524.
  7. ^ a b "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  8. ^ "No. 13422". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 March 1919. p. 1277.
  9. ^ "No. 32782". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1923. p. 3.

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Military offices
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