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War service: Egypt, Western Front

Found guilty, Zeitoun, 21 January 1916, of being drunk, 15 January 1916: fined 5/- and awarded 7 days' defaulters' drill.

Allotted to and proceeded to join 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 26 February 1916.

Transferred to 60th Bn, 15 March 1916.

Admitted to 15th Australian Field Ambulance, Ferry Post, 28 April 1916 (sunstroke); discharged to duty same day.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Admitted to 15th Australian Field Ambulance, 3 July 1916 (corneal ulcers); transferred to 12th Casualty Clearing Station, 4 July 1916; discharged to duty, 8 July 1916; rejoined Bn, in the field, 9 July 1916.

Reported Missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 4 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Note, Red Cross File No 1990204: 'No trace Germany. Cert. by Capt. Mills. 10.10.19.'

Statement, 3182 Corporal R. MITCHELL, D Company, 60th Bn, 14 March 1917: 'Eighteen hours after the charge at Fleurbaix, as I was crawling back, I saw Neill about 50 yards from our line covered with blood, singing and laughing and shouting. He seemed wounded in the chest and about the loins; his legs seemed paralysed. I stayed with him a quarter of an hour, but he did not know me, or understand anything I said. I think he must have died.'