Harold Clive Newman CBE (5 June 1896 – 6 December 1983) was an Australian public servant who was Commonwealth Auditor-General between 1955 and 1961.
[2] When war broke out in August, 1914 he joined the 9th Light Horse Regiment and he went ashore with it at Gallipoli on 20 May 1915 and served continuously on the peninsula until the last night of the evacuation 19–20 December 1915.
He failed when attempting to enlist in the Army in 1939 and was later appointed Chief Finance Officer of the Defence Division of the Treasury at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne.
[5] In 1954 he was appointed OBE (Civil Division) in the Queen’s birthday honours list for distinguished public service as Treasury representative on several defence committees.
[7] In 1960 Mr Newman was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his continued and distinguished public service.