Major-General Henry William Newcome CB, CMG, DSO (14 July 1875 – 25 February 1963) was a British Army officer.
Newcome was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and saw action in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
[1] He served on the Western Front in the First World War, which began in the summer of 1914, with the Royal Field Artillery for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
The citation for his DSO appeared in The London Gazette in April 1915 and reads as follows: For the excellent work performed throughout the campaign, especially on the 10th and 11th March, 1915, during the action at Givenchy, when he directed the fire of his Battery from a ruined house with great skill whilst exposed to very heavy rifle fire.
[8] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1919 New Year Honours[9] and Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1923 New Year Honours.