Norman Joseph VEAL

VEAL, Norman Joseph

Service Number: 2070
Enlisted: 23 February 1915, Bendigo, Vic.
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
Born: Newport, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town: Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling: Long Gully State School No. 2120
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 43)., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Members of The Beehive Staff Pictorial Honor Roll, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Long Gully Methodist Church Great War Roll of Honor
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World War 1 Service

23 Feb 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2070, 14th Infantry Battalion, Bendigo, Vic.
17 Apr 1915: Involvement Private, 2070, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
17 Apr 1915: Embarked Private, 2070, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
9 Jul 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2070, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
7 Aug 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2070, 14th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Son of James B and Florence VEAL

Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Pte 2070 Norman Joseph Veal was listed as missing, later killed, in action on 7 August 1915 following the unsuccessful attack on Hill 971 as part of the August Offensive. There is a very high probability he was killed at or near a place called Abdel Rahman Bair (the ridgeline immediately before Hill 971) where the 14th Battalion was caught in the open by well sited Turkish machine guns and driven back with significant casualties (36 killed, 93 wounded and 128 missing - later confirmed killed). 

Joseph Veal's body was never recovered and he is memorialised at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.

Cousins:

1668 Corporal Leonard GILLESPIE MM, 5th Bn, killed in action, 4 October 1917;

3729 Corporal Thomas VEAL MM, 13th Light Trench Mortar Battery, returned to Australia, 5 April 1919.

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