Neill George Albert William Captain 58433 - Revision history

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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Neill George Albert William.
|Army number=58433.
|Rank=Captain.
|Decorations=Currently being identified.
|Date of birth=22/2/1910.
|Age=86 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps - gazetted 7/3/1933. Posted 33rd Field Hygiene Section January 1940 and took up post 30/1/1940. Served with the B.E.F. in France. Evacuated - probably from Dunkirk. Posted 81 Base Sub Area with effect from 25/2/1941 as DADH. Served Crete.
|Company/Battery=33rd Field Hygiene Section.
|Task or role=Officer Commanding.
|Promotions=Captain - mentioned as such in Gazette, dated 18/6/1937, but promotion entry not apparently published. Acting Major 31/1/1940. Lieutenant Colonel.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured on Crete. Held in Stalags XVIII and 383. P.o.W. Number not yet known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died October 1996, at Barnsley.
|Home address=Married Edith E. Cromb at Horncastle in July 1938. Registered Q3 1938 - Lincolnshire.
}}

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	\|Home address=Married Edith E. Cromb at Horncastle in July 1938. Registered Q3 1938 - Lincolnshire. Lived at 2, Wellfield Road, Barnsley until his death in 1996.		\|Home address=Married Edith E. Cromb at Horncastle in July 1938. Registered Q3 1938 - Lincolnshire. Lived at 2, Wellfield Road, Barnsley until his death in 1996.
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		+	Grateful thanks are due to Lt Col Neill's great nephew for much of the information on this Page.

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 |Date of birth=22/2/1910.
 |Age=86 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps - gazetted 7/3/1933. Posted 33rd Field Hygiene Section January 1940 and took up post 30/1/1940.  Served with the B.E.F. in France.  Evacuated - via Dunkirk on H.M. Transport (T.S.S.) Canterbury [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS_Canterbury_(1929)].  Reported to Launceston, Cornwall until 6/10/1940.  Departed Glasgow on H.M.T. K4.  Ship attacked by aircraft 9/10/1940 and returned for repairs.  Moved to Oswestry.  Departed LIverpool on H.M.T. J4 (Tamaroa) 15/12/1940 [http://collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/162307].  Attacked by German Cruiser Admiral Hipper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper] 25/12/1940 but proceeded to Freetown - Sierra Leone - January 1941, then on to Durgan - arriving Suez 16/2/1941.  Relinquished command of Unit 25/2/1941.  Posted 81 Base Sub Area with effect from 25/2/1941 as DADH.  Served Crete.  Reported Missing 28/4/1941.  Confirmed as having been taken Prisoner of War 23/8/1941.
+|Unit=Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps - gazetted 7/3/1933. Posted 33rd Field Hygiene Section January 1940 and took up post 30/1/1940.  Served with the B.E.F. in France.  Evacuated - via Dunkirk on H.M. Transport (T.S.S.) Canterbury [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS_Canterbury_(1929)].  Reported to Launceston, Cornwall until 6/10/1940.  Departed Glasgow on H.M.T. K4.  Ship attacked by aircraft 9/10/1940 and returned for repairs.  Moved to Oswestry.  Departed LIverpool on H.M.T. J4 (Tamaroa) 15/12/1940 [http://collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/162307].  Attacked by German Cruiser Admiral Hipper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper] 25/12/1940 but proceeded to Freetown - Sierra Leone - January 1941, then on to Durban - arriving Suez 16/2/1941.  Relinquished command of Unit 25/2/1941.  Posted 81 Base Sub Area, North Africa with effect from 25/2/1941 as Deputy Assistant Director of Health.  Served Crete.  Reported Missing 28/4/1941.  Confirmed as having been taken Prisoner of War 23/8/1941.
 |Company/Battery=33rd Field Hygiene Section.
 |Task or role=Officer Commanding.

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 |Army number=58433.
 |Rank=Captain.
-|Decorations=Currently being identified.
+|Decorations=O.B.E., Order of St John, 39-45 Campaign Star, Africa Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, QE II Coronation Medal, KG VI Territorial Efficiency Medal and four bars 1947.
 |Date of birth=22/2/1910.
 |Age=86 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps - gazetted 7/3/1933. Posted 33rd Field Hygiene Section January 1940 and took up post 30/1/1940.  Served with the B.E.F. in France.  Evacuated - probably from Dunkirk.  Posted 81 Base Sub Area with effect from 25/2/1941 as DADH.  Served Crete.
+|Unit=Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps - gazetted 7/3/1933. Posted 33rd Field Hygiene Section January 1940 and took up post 30/1/1940.  Served with the B.E.F. in France.  Evacuated - via Dunkirk on H.M. Transport (T.S.S.) Canterbury.  Reported to Launceston, Cornwall until 6/10/1940.  Departed Glasgow on H.M.T. K4.  Ship attacked by aircraft 9/10/1940 and returned for repairs.  Moved to Oswestry.  Departed LIverpool on H.M.T. J4 (Tamaroa) 15/12/1940 [see http://collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/162307].  Attacked by German Cruiser 25/12/1940 but proceeded to Freetown - Sierra Leone - January 1941, then on to Durgan - arriving Suez 16/2/1941.  Relinquished command of Unit 25/2/1941.  Posted 81 Base Sub Area with effect from 25/2/1941 as DADH.  Served Crete.  Reported Missing 28/4/1941.  Confirmed as having been taken Prisoner of War 23/8/1941.
 |Company/Battery=33rd Field Hygiene Section.
 |Task or role=Officer Commanding.
 |Promotions=Captain - mentioned as such in  Gazette, dated 18/6/1937, but promotion entry not apparently published.  Acting Major 31/1/1940.  Lieutenant Colonel.
 |Wounded=Not so far as is known.
-|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured on Crete.  Held in Stalags XVIII and 383.  P.o.W. Number not yet known.
+|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured on Crete.  Held in Stalags XVIII and 383.  P.o.W. Number 1021.
 |Died/Killed in action=Died October 1996, at Barnsley.
-|Home address=Married Edith E. Cromb at Horncastle in July 1938.  Registered Q3 1938 - Lincolnshire.
+|Home address=Married Edith E. Cromb at Horncastle in July 1938.  Registered Q3 1938 - Lincolnshire.  Lived at 2, Wellfield Road, Barnsley until his death in 1996.
 }}