Harold Clive Newman

Harold Clive Newman (5 June 18967 December 1983) was an Australian public servant who was Commonwealth Auditor-General between 1955 and 1961.

Biography Harold Clive Newman CBE was born in Charleston, South Australia on 5 June 1896 to George Charles Newman and his wife Maria Mary (née Carmichael). He went to school at Charleston and Lobethal and then to the Adelaide School of Mines. He started work as a relief telegraph messenger at Woodside Post Office in 1910 and made permanent on 26 August 1911. He claimed that the date of birth in his war records was a mistake.

After returning to Australia he helped to form the Returned Services League. An office bearer until his death, he was appointed a national trustee in 1955.

On 4 October 1919 at Pirie Street Methodist Church, Adelaide, he married Vesta Ward Deeble. They had two daughters and a son.

In 1955 he was appointed Auditor-General of the Commonwealth, a post he held until he retired in 1961.

In 1960 Newman was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his continued and distinguished public service.

He was a member of the Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Royal Canberra Golf Club and the Canberra Bowling Club.

He died on 7 December 1983 aged 87. He asked for a bugler to play the “Last Post” over the grave he had selected alongside his wife at Charleston, South Australia.