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Robert McNeill

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Robert's pension record image courtesy of WFA

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 76267
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Notts & Derby Regiment
  • Unit/Ship: 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 33
  • Date of Death: 07.06.1917
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 39 & 41

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 44 Catherine St, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:
  • Father:

    Robert McNeill, Monikie

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Annie McNeill of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

  • Children:

More about Robert McNeill

Robert has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial. He was the son of the late Robert McNeill of Monikie, He returned from Canada in 1914 and initially enlisted with the Royal Engineers with the Regimental No 404175. He was a former pupil of Grove Academy, Broughty Ferry and is remembered on the schools war memorial.

Robert is remembered on the Canadian Virtual Memorial, see here.

Information supplied by Gary Thomson

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