Lieutenant Commander Robert Goodchild Newbegin III (February 5, 1907 – October 20, 1974)
Lt. Cmdr. Robert Newbegin III
The following appeared in the 1927 edition of the Lucky Bag, the United States Naval Academy yearbook:
Robert Goodchild Newbegin 3rd
Brooklyn, New York
“Bob” “Francis” “Ponzi”
Bob is about the youngest one in the class and this, perhaps, explains why his ideas are so radically different from the Executive Department. He doesn’t seem to realize that those at the bottom get the worst of any argument in the Navy.
Although Bob is not so good when it comes to executive ability, as a financial wizard he stands alone. His grand coup with Wall street is known to all, much to every one’s dismay.
Academics hold no worries for him. Math is his delight and although now and then he went unsat, a little boning soon put him where he belonged.
To most everyone Bob seems to be a great big “don’t give a darn” boy, but to those that know him he is entirely different. Robert has a golden heart and smile. Big-hearted in every way and always ready to do his share to help along, and he doesn’t stop half way. A little noisy but as good as they come and his boisterous ways seem to suit him. A love of arguments seems to draw him in the limelight and if his facts are a little wrong he usually drowns out his opponents with tobacco smoke and a long-winded discussion on the “whichness of why.”
Tall, lanky, golden-haired, with an infectious smile, Bob, when he grows up and begins to see that life has its serious side, will take his place where his brains and his abilities belong – among those on the top of the heap.
Lt. Cmdr. Robert Newbegin III Signature
Robert Newbegin III was a resident of Plymouth, Virginia and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
 Robert III and Mary Newbegin Headstone |
 Robert III and Mary Newbegin Headstone |
Many thanks to Anne Cady for submitting the above photo to Find A Grave.
Oh my gosh! This is my grandfather and I’ve never seen this picture of him. How are we related? Please reach out to me, as I am an amateur genealogist for the Newbegin family. Thanks!
Hi there, I’m also curious how you are related to my grandfather Robert Newbegin III.
Ty! Lynn Anne Newbegin
I did not post this but this is my uncle – and I assume your father was my first cousin, Edward Cherry Newbegin. . Some uncles and cousins are distant, but when I was 12 my mother, brother, and grandmother and I moved into your grandfather’s house in Roslyn, Long Island with him and your grandmother. Your father and his twin brother, Bob Newbegin IV were starting at the Naval Academy.
I won’t go on longer since I don’t know if you will even see this, but if you do, I would enjoy emailing with you.
Geoff Pietsch Gsinesville FL
Your grandfather was my uncle (my mother’s brother). During my junior-senior high years my mother, brother and I lived with him and his wife Mary in Roslyn Long Island. Your father and his twin were at the Naval Academy but home on vacations. Your dad’s Boy Scout experience in Troop 1, Roslyn, inspired me to join. Your grandfather was my hero since I was a little kid during WWII and we all followed, and worried about, his commanding LCI flotillas in invasions in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy (D-Day), and Okinawa.
If you get this, I would like to hear from you.