Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant J. A. Newman, Middlesex Regiment, Amateur Motor Cyclist
1914 Star (2.Lieut., Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) together with School Cadet Corps Challenge Cup, bronze medal, E.V11.R; one silver and three bronze Motor Cycle competition prize medals, variously dated 1911-13 and all named to J. A. Neumann; seventeen post-War Motor Cycle competition medals, silver and enamel (5), silver (7), bronze and enamel (2), bronze (3), all but one named and variously dated 1919-22, including two from Switzerland and one from the Netherlands, good very fine and an interesting group (25)

John Arthur Neumann (later changed to Newman) was born on 18 January 1892, and appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Middlesex Regiment, 3 September 1913, and Lieutenant 14 October 1914. Curiously he is listed as a Half-Pay Officer on the Active List from that date for the remainder of the War.