Neil Robert SUTHERLAND

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SUTHERLAND, Neil Robert

Service Number:	2405
Enlisted:	7 April 1916, Newcastle, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 13 May 1897
Home Town:	Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, 19 June 1953, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Methodist; Section 23; Plot 14
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World War 1 Service

7 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2405, Newcastle, New South Wales
17 Oct 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2405, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney
17 Oct 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2405, 35th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Nov 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion
28 Nov 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion
29 Nov 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 35th Infantry Battalion
12 Jun 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 2405, 35th Infantry Battalion
18 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 2405, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery.

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.

69 years ago today, on the 20th June 1953, Lance Sergeant Neil Robert Sutherland, 35th Battalion (Reg No-2405), clerk from 90 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and 32 Turner Street, Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 56. METHODIST 4-23. 14.

Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 13th May 1897 to William Swanson and Annie Elizabeth Sutherland nee Sessions; husband of Gladys Sutherland nee Turner (married 1927, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 1965, sleeping here), Neil enlisted May 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Neil returned home August 1919, being discharged on the 18th September 1919.
Mr. Sutherland’s name has been inscribed on the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Newcastle) Roll of Honour.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the gravesite in remembrance of Neil’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Older brother William Alexander (Original Anzac, Reg No-40, 1st Australian Field Company Engineers, born 1893, died 27.12.1980, district unknown, name inscribed on the Newcastle Protestant Alliance, Friendly Society of Australia, Lodge No-7 Roll of Honor) also served 1st A.I.F.

Many thanks to John Sutherland for the portrait photos.

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