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Returning to Australia in 1902, Newland re-settled in Victoria and joined the Royal Australian Artillery in July the following year.

He served in the artillery for over four years, before transferring to the militia in September 1907.

In 1909, he became a police officer in the Tasmanian Police Force, where he remained until August 1910, when he re-enlisted in the permanent army.

He was posted to the Australian Instructional Corps ; he served with this unit until the outbreak of the First World War.

In a ceremony at Sheffield, Tasmania on 27 December 1913, Newland married Florence May Mitchell.