Billy Newing
# Billy Newing

William Joseph Newing (1 August 1892 – 7 March 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1913.

## Family

The son of John Newing, and Mary Jane Newing (1859-1926), née Kernan, William Joseph Newing was born at Moonee Ponds, Victoria on 1 August 1892.

He married Olivia Marguerite Byrne on 20 November 1922.

## Education

Educated at the Christian Brothers College, in East St Kilda, he began his medical studies at the University of Melbourne in 1912, graduating Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), in absentia, on 20 December 1916.

## Football

He played five games for the First XVIII of the Melbourne University Football Club in the VFL competition in 1913. His first match was against Fitzroy on 26 April 1913. and the last, against St Kilda on 5 July 1913. He was awarded a "half blue" for football.

## Cricket

He played District Cricket with Essendon Cricket Club (four matches, 1912–13 season) and with the University of Melbourne Cricket Club (six matches, 1914–15 to 1916–17 seasons).

## Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 26 November 1917, and served overseas (in France) as a Medical Officer in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He left Australia aboard HMAT Themistocles (A32) on 28 January 1918, and returned to Australia aboard HMAT Anchises (A68), arriving in Melbourne on 22 September 1919.

## Medicine

Upon graduation, he began his career as a Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital; and, following his military service, he worked at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne:

       Newing was educated at the Christian Brothers College, East St Kilda…. In 1918 he enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps and served as a captain in France. At St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, where he worked for over forty years, he was remembered as a tall, military looking, distinguished figure. Some seven or eight years older than his contemporaries, due to war service interrupting his career, Newing’s demonstrations of clinical findings impressed his students. His specialty was chest diseases, especially pulmonary tuberculosis from which he suffered as a result of his war experiences. (Carolan, 2015, pp.131-132.)

### University Council

For a number of years he was a member of the University Council of the University of Melbourne, representing "Medicine and Surgery".

### Victorian Tuberculosis Association

He served as the President of the Victorian Division of the Australian Tuberculosis Association.

## Death

He died at his home in Kew, Victoria on 7 March 1970.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Marriages: Newing—Kernan, The Argus, (Wednesday, 25 June 184), p.1.
* ↑ Births: Newing, The Argus, (Tuesday, 23 August 1892), p.1.
* ↑ Approaching Marriages, Table Talk, (Thursday, 16 November 1922), p.9; Marriages, The Prahran Telegraph, (Friday, 24 November 1922), p.4.
* ↑ University of Melbourne: Conferring of Degrees, The Argus, (Thursday, 21 December 1916), p.9.
* ↑ Note that the University's "Roll of Service Overseas 1914–1918" incorrectly has "M.D., B.S.".
* ↑ Register of Medical Practitioners for 1927, Victorian Government Gazette, No.8, (Thursday, 20 January 1927), p.221.
* ↑ League Clubs: University, The Australasian, (Saturday, 26 April 1913), p.29.
* ↑ Roll of Service Overseas 1914–1918: Roll of the Returned: Newing, William Joseph 1912, The University of Melbourne Record of Active Service of Teachers, Graduates, Undergraduates, Officers and Servants in the European War, 1914–1918, University of Melbourne, (Melbourne), 1926, p.220.
* ↑ Register of V.C.A. 1st XI Pennant, District & Premier Cricketers: 1889-90 to 2017-18 N to R, (Cricket Victoria), p.2.
* ↑ Personal, The Argus, (Wednesday, 11 April 1917), p.8.
* ↑ University Council Elections, The Herald, (Tuesday, 14 November 1933), p.10; Five Seats Contested: Elections for University, The Argus, (Tuesday, 16 November 1937), p.2.
* ↑ To Combat T.B.: Experts' Advisory Council, The Age, (Tuesday, 14 November 1944), p.5.
* ↑ New Anti-T.B. Society Launched, The Age, (Thursday, 16 February 1950), p.9.
* ↑ Deaths: Newing, The Age, (Monday, 9 March 1970), p.11.
