Newcombe

[tr ed p 150], pencil, Roberts, 160 x 152 mm

'Newcombe' typeset brc in margin, artist's signature, 'William Roberts', blc. Illustration in black/grey on palest pastel green background, with palest beige border.

Lt-Colonel Stewart Newcombe, RE, British adviser attached to Feisal.

p 220 [tr ed p 239] - 'Newcombe had constant difficulties owing to excess of zeal, and his habit of doing four times more than any other Englishman would do: ten times what the Arabs thought needful or wise. Hornby spoke little Arabic; and Newcombe not enough to persuade, though enough to give orders; but orders were not in place inland. The persistent pair would cling for weeks to the railway edge, almost without helpers, often without food, till they had exhausted either explosives or camels and had to return for more.'

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