NEILSON, Cyril Cameron Arthur
| Service Number: | 3600 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 January 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 22 October 1897 |
| Home Town: | Petina, Streaky Bay, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Broken Hill School & Nailsworth School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Mont St Quentin, France, 30 July 1918, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nailsworth Primary School Great War Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Winchelsea WWI Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 12 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3600, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3600, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide |
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a.k.a. Kaiser...
Father's name: Arthur Edward Kaiser, Mother's name: Rose Charlotte Lush
"...2306 Private (Pte) Cyril Cameron Arthur Neilson, 9th Light Horse Regiment. A farmer from Petina, South Australia, prior to enlistment, and according to his service file "he was anxious to get to the front", so transferred to the 32nd Battalion in June 1916 with the service number 3600 and then embarked with the 8th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 12 August 1916 aboard HMAT Ballarat for Devonport, England. Following training in England he proceeded to join his battalion on the Western Front near Dernancourt, France. Pte Neilson was killed in action near Mont St Quentin, France, on 30 July 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. He was aged 20 years." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
The late Private CYRIL C. A. NEILSON was born in Adelaide on Trafalgar Day, 1897, and was educated at schools at Tarcoola, White Cliffs, Nailsworth, Wilcannla, and LeFevre's Peninsula, finishing at the Technical College, Broken Hill, where he subsequently entered the employe of G. and R. Wills & Co. By his genial and honest disposition, he became a general favorite, and eventually left the firm with the good wishes of all, to go on the land, with Mr. W. E. Stone, at Petina. He remained there until he enlisted.
He left Australia on August 12, 1916, and spent nearly two years in the firing line. He was the elder beloved son of Rose Turning, and nephew of Mesdames Jas. Jenkins, Fremantle; R. Buchanan, Middleton; E. Allison, Semaphore and Geo. Hardy, North Melbourne; and the grandson of Mrs. C. and the late J. H. Lush, of Rainbow. Victoria.
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