4th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment (1929–1934)
144th (Gloucester and Worcester) Infantry Brigade (1934–1938)
135th Infantry Brigade
Battles/wars
First World War
Second World War
Awards
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
Mention in Despatches x2
Arthur Leslie Walter NewthCBE DSO MC JP DL TD (1897 – 27 September 1978) was a British Army officer. Whilst attending Bristol Grammar School he became a corporal in the school's cadet corps. In 1914 Newth was commissioned into the 4th (City of Bristol) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He served with the battalion on the Western Front and received the Military Cross for gallantry in 1915. Newth was promoted to the acting rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1918 to command the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. He was 21 when he was appointed and was probably the youngest battalion commander of the war.
In 1919 Newth commanded the 2/23rd (County of London) Battalion and was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order. He afterwards returned to the Gloucestershire Regiment serving as adjutant and then commander of the 4th Battalion. From 1934, as a colonel and then a brigadier, he commanded the Territorial Army's 144th (Gloucester and Worcester) Infantry Brigade. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1938. In the Second World War Newth commanded the 135th Infantry Brigade. He served in the North African campaign and as director of Army Welfare Services in the Central Mediterranean and was twice mentioned in despatches. He retired from the army in 1955.
In business Newth was a director of Harris & Hassell (1929) Ltd and C. Newth and Sons, furniture makers. He was chairman of the Bristol and Bath district committee of the South-Western Regional Board for Industry from 1956 to 1965 and served as master of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers for 1975–76. He was deputy lieutenant of Gloucestershire and Somerset and a justice of the peace.
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