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TREMEARNE, ARTHUR JOHN NEWMAN. 1897.
Geelong G.S.; Ormond; student of Medicine, until he went as Lieut. in first Viet. contingent to Boer War; was wounded there, promoted Capt., and served as special officer in the Ashanti Expedition, and Adjutant of the West African Regiment at Sierra Leone; had seven years' political, administrative, and military work in Northern Nigeria, and on return to London was appointed second in command London Regiment; on retirement through ill health worked at Cambridge, becoming Scholar and Prizeman of Christ's Coll.; held degrees of M.A., LL.M., M.Sc., and Dip. Anthropology (the first granted at Cambridge); was F.R.G.S. and F.R.A.I., Wort Travelling Student, and Hausa Lecturer at Cambridge; author of several books on the customs of the Hausa people. In 1913 undertook work among the Hausa colony of Tunis and Tripoli, of the results of which he gave an account before the British Association; he was with this body, and on its general committee, when it visited Australia in 1914 and, on news of the outbreak of war, returned immediately to London, and was appointed second in command 8th Seaforth Highlanders. To France July 1915, and in action till 25.9.15, when he was shot through the heart at Loos, while leading his men over the second line of German trenches.