Maxwell Verdun NEYLON

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NEYLON, Maxwell Verdun

Service Number:	27324
Enlisted:	6 August 1940, Adelaide
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	SHQ Sembawang (RAAF)
Born:	Port Pirie, South Australia, 10 December 1921
Home Town:	Walkerville, South Australia
Schooling:	Pulteney Street Grammar School, Adelaide Technical HS, Adelaide University, South Australia
Occupation:	Electrical Engineer
Died:	Ground Battle, Sembawang airfield, Singapore, 17 January 1942, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Kranji War Cemetery 32 A 7, Kranji War Cemetery, Kranji, Singapore
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Port Pirie WW2 Memorial Gates

World War 2 Service

6 Aug 1940:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 27324
6 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 27324, SHQ Sembawang (RAAF), Adelaide
6 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 27324

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Leading Aircraftman William Edwin Stone 18549 of 8SQN RAAF (Singapore Memorial) and Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Verdun Neylon 27324 of 1SQN RAAF (Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore) were killed during a Japanese air-raid on Sembawang airfield, Singapore (their deaths are mentioned in book “In the Vanguard against Japan” by E.R. (Bon) Hall in the “Glory in Chaos” set of titles)

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