MUNDAY, Neill Horace
| Service Number: | 16360 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 May 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Sea Transport Staff |
| Born: | Marryatville, South Australia, 16 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Hyde Park, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Muirden College and University of Adelaide, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical student |
| Died: | Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 19 October 1955, aged 61 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Site lease expired in 2005 - headstone removed |
| Memorials: | Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board, Unley U.A.O.D. Britannia Lodge No 32 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 30 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 16360, Sea Transport Staff, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 25 Nov 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 16360, Sea Transport Staff, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Nov 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 16360, Sea Transport Staff, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 22 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 16360, Sea Transport Staff |
Biography
Published Biography
Blood Sweat and Fears: Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australian who Served in World War 1, C Verco, A Summers, T Swain & M Jelly. July 2014
Additional Biography
Early Life
Neill Horace Munday was born Horace Munday to Fred Munday and Lizzie O’Neill at Marryatville, on the 16th of March 1894 (SA Birth Registration 539/451.
Schooling
Marryatville Public School and Muirden College
Early Activities
By 1911 Horace was a member of the Muirden College Old Scholar’s Association. He played Baseball for the Sturt Oval team (1912-15) and B Grade Cricket for Sturt (1912/13- 1914/15).
Adelaide University
Horace passed the Special Senior Examinations in March 1916 and commenced studying Medicine at Adelaide University. He played B Grade Cricket for Adelaide University in the 1915/16 season.
World War I
Shortly after commencing his medical studies Horace enlisted on 30 May 1916. His war time service is well documented in the Blood, Swear and Fears biography (see document). Neill was discharged in February 1919.
Post-War University
Horace returned to the University in 1919 and recommenced his medical studies. In September 1920, he added Neill as a forename and was known as Neill Munday from that time. Neill completed his medical studies in December 1924 and became registered as a qualified Medical Practitioner.
Post-War University Sport
Cricket
Neill rejoined the University Cricket Club, playing B Grade cricket from the 1919/20-22/23. Neill was the B Grade Captain in 1922.
Lacrosse
From 1921, Neill played Lacrosse for the University. He played in the A Grade in 1921 and 1924 and B Grade in 1922 and 1923. He Captained the B Grade team in 1923. In 1924 Neill represented the University at the Intervarsity Competition.
Career
After qualifying, Neill was appointed a resident medical officer at the Adelaide Hospital, a position he held until October 1925. Neill then took up general practice at Murray Bridge where he was also appointed Medical Officer for Mobilong. Neill remained in Murray Bridge for nine years.
In May 1935 the family left for England onboard the Ormonde. While in the UK, Neill studied in both London and Edinburgh. He arrived back in Australia onboard the Australia Star in October 1937. Neill joined the Russell brothers in the general practice in the Unley area.
Activities
Neill played lacrosse for Sturt in 1925. While at Murray Bridge, Neill became a Vice President of the Rowing Club, Patron of the Rambler Football Club, a Member of Council of the Murray Bridge Technical School, Divisional Surgeon for the newly formed St John’s Ambulance Brigade, surgeon for the Murray Bridge Racing Club, a member of the Royal Society of St George and the RSL. He competed in the Murray Bridge Grass Tennis Club tournament and was a member of the newly formed Murray Bridge RSL Cricket team 1930/31- 32/33, and from 1933, he became a golfer.
World War II
In July 1940 Neill was appointed as Medical Officer for the Defence Corps and in October 1940, he was appointed an Honorary Captain in the A.A.M.C. Reserve. In September 1941, Neill judged the Stretcher Drills at the Red Cross Emergency Services competitions at Victoria Park.
Family Life
In October 1925, Neill married Dorrie Eva Ellershaw. In 1927 the couple had a daughter Mary Elizabeth and a son Robert , born 2nd of November 1930. The family took a motoring holiday to Victoria in 1934.
The family lived at 196 Fullarton Road, Highgate.
In September 1947, Mary became engaged to John Pavy (the son of Dr. H.K. Pavy) of Naracoorte. The couple married in November 1948 at the St Peter’s College Chapel and had a son (Timothy John Glover Pavy in 1951). In December 1951, Neill and Dorrie sold their Highgate home.
Robert N. (Bob) Munday followed his father to St Peter’s College and to Adelaide University where he passed his MB BS in December 1954.
Death
Neill passed away in October 1955, aged 61, (SA Death Registration 833/6153) and was interred on the 26th of October at Centennial Park. The couple had been living at Tusmore prior to his death. Dorrie passed away and was also interred at Centennial Park, Adelaide on the 2nd of June 1982. She had been living at Toorak Gardens.
Author EE (Beth) Filmer
For the complete profile including photographs, newspaper articles, documents and sources prepared for the AUFC/AUCC WWI Memorial Project (in the period 2015-2019) please see the document attached.
Submitted 14 June 2025 by Eleanor Filmer
Biography contributed by Annette Summers
MUNDAY Neill Horace MB BS FRCS
1894-1955
Neill Horace Munday was born on 16th March 1894, in Marryatville, South Australia, the fifth child and fourth son of Fred Munday and Elizabeth, nee O’Neill of County Clare, Ireland. Munday was initially named as Horace Munday but he changed it to Neill Horace Munday after WW1. Munday was educated at Marryatville High School and later Muirden College. He topped the commercial examinations at the age of 16 before enrolling in medicine at the University of Adelaide in 1916. Munday enlisted in the first AIF, as a private soldier in the AAMC, on the 30th May 1916, while he was still a medical student. He was posted to No. 5 Section Sea Transport Nursing Staff and travelled back and forth between Australia and the United Kingdom, as a nurse/medical orderly, for the next three years. He was discharged at the rank of sergeant, with influenza on 22 February 1919. Munday resumed his medical studies at the University of Adelaide in 1919 and graduated MB BS in 1924. It was at this time he changed his name by deed poll to Neill (derived from his mother’s maiden name) Horace Munday. During his university years he played intervarsity lacrosse and was captain of the University B Cricket Team. After serving his resident year at the Adelaide Hospital he entered general practice at Murray Bridge from 1926 until May 1935. He married Dorrie Eva Ellershaw in October 1925. She was the daughter of Frederic Ellershaw and Alice Mary, nee Evens. Munday and his wife had two children; Mary born in 1927 and, Robert born in 1930. In order to further his studies in surgery, Munday went with his family to the United Kingdom in May 1935. After a short stay in London with his elder brother William, Munday decided to move to Edinburgh where he spent nine months studying in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary under Professor John Fraser who was Regius Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh University at the time. He passed the Fellowship Examination in Surgery in July 1936. Munday and his family returned to Adelaide, in 1937, to enter a general practice partnership in the Unley area of Adelaide with two brothers, Drs Herbert Henry Ernest Russell and Ernest Albert Harold Russell. Munday was the surgeon in the group. After several years with the Russell brothers Munday moved into his own private surgical practice with consulting rooms in the Bank of New South Wales Building, in Adelaide.
Munday joined the army again at the onset of WW2. He was gazetted as a captain in the AAMC and was a recruiting medical officer during the early part of the war. He would have undertaken the medical examination of recruits joining the military in Adelaide. His age precluded him from further involvement in the military, and there are no additional records of his service.
Munday was appointed an honorary clinical assistant, in 1939, at the RAH and on the 1st December 1942, he was promoted to the position of honorary assistant surgeon to Sir Henry Newland and held this position until 3rd January 1946. While operating at Memorial Hospital North Adelaide in October 1950, Munday suffered a major stroke, and it was feared he would die shortly. However, showing great courage over the next six months, he recovered enough to walk with the aid of a stick but was never able to return to work. Neill Horace Munday died, on the 19th October 1955 at the age of 61, after a long illness, survived by his wife, Dorrie, and two children, Mary and Robert, an obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Source
Blood, Sweat and Fears III: Medical Practitioners South Australia, who Served in World War 2.
Swain, Jelly, Verco, Summers. Open Books Howden, Adelaide 2019.
Uploaded by Annette Summers AO RFD
Biography
"...16360 Corporal Neill Horace Munday, born Marryatville, South Australia. Enlisted Australian Army Medical Corp 30 May 1916. Served No.5 Section Sea Transport Staff. Post war served as doctor at Murray Bridge for 10 years before qualifying FRCS London, after which he established his practice on North Terrace, Adelaide." - SOURCE (collections.slsa.sa.gov.au)
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