Victor Marra Newland
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Major Victor Marra Newland, M.C., D.C.M. (November 2, 1876 - January 12, 1953) was an Australian army officer and politician.
He served in the South African war, and with the British army in World War I. He retired with the rank of major. He was formerly a member of the legislative council of British East Africa, and in 1933 became the representative for North Adelaide in the South Australian house of assembly.
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- Serle, Percival. (1949). "Newland, Simpson". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
- Jenkin, G. K. Newland, Victor Marra (1876 - 1953), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 10-12.
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