NEYLAND, Earl
| Service Number: | 871A |
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| Enlisted: | 18 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Corack, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 1888 |
| Home Town: | Birchip, Buloke, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dealer |
| Died: | 1946, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 18 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 871A, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 16 Aug 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 871A, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marere embarkation_ship_number: A21 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Aug 1915: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 871A, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Marere, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Earl Neyland served at Gallipoli from October 1915 and the Middle East with the 9th Light Horse Regiment.
His brother James Leslie Neyland was killed in action at Arras during April 1917, serving with Gordon Highlanders in the British Army. Another brother, Niven Neyland 14th Battalion AIF, was captured by the Turks at Gallipoli and was a prisoner of war. He had five other brothers serving in the Great War, four in the AIF and one in the British Royal Fusiliers. They were all the sons of John Pringle and Margaret Ann Neyland of Birchip, Victoria.
During August 1917, Earl Neyland made the following application to return to Australia,
“I hereby make application for transfer to Australia for Home Service to enable me to fix up the affairs of our property which have lapsed into a hopeless muddle, as my father has met with a serious accident, permanently injuring him, and my six brothers have all enlisted, and my mother finds management of the farms impossible. I have seen service at Gallipoli, Sinai Peninsula, and Palestine, and have lost the sight of my right eye, and as I am not a ‘A’ Class man, I conscientiously believe my service to the Empire could be utilised in Australia to equal if not greater advantage than as at present, and by favourable consideration of this application I could attend to our properties and that of my brother who is a prisoner of war, and has left a wife and four children in Australia.” (Copy in his NAA service file)
The application was eventually approved by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) and Neyland returned to Australia, 13 January 1918.
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