| Notes: | Provost Officer. Royal Corps of Transport.
London Gazette 46576, 6522, 20/5/1975. Corps of Royal Military Police. Regular Army. Lt. David Andrew Frederick Joseph New (489922) from Special Reg. Commn., RCT. to be 2/Lt., 26/4/1974, with seniority 25/7/1970.
To be Lt, 26/4/1974, with seniority 25/7/1973.
London Gazette 46972, 10272, 27/7/1970. Corps of Royal Military Police. Regular Army. Lt. D A F J New (489922) to be Capt., 25/7/1976.
London Gazette 47775, 2331, 20/2/1979. Corps of Royal Military Police. Regular Army. The undermentioned Capt to be Maj, 2/1/1978: D A F J New (489922). (Duplicated in 47745, 654, 16/1/1979).
Died 5/2/1985. Cause of death parachuting accident, Salisbury Plain, UK. Age 40. He was taking part in a British Parachute Association Potential Instructors course. He had jumped from 5,500 ft for a free-fall decent that involved various airborne manoeuvres, when tragically his canopy failed to open. Inscription on gravestone: On duty parachuting. Born 20/10/1944. David Andrew Frederick Joseph New.
Extract from the Newcastle Journal, 6/2/1985. Major dies in parachute jump.
An Army parachutist fell 5,500 feet to his death yesterday when both his chutes failed to open properly.
Major David New, aged 40, of the Royal Military Police, who was on a potential parachute instructors course, was badly injured and died later at Salisbury infirmary, Wiltshire. |
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