John Patrick O'NEILL

Birthplace
Billadinna NSW
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Carter
Enlisted
10-January-1916
Place
Toowoomba
Age
21
Status
Single
Service No
2866
Rank
Private
Unit
31st Battalion, 6th Reinforcements
Embarked
14-April-1916
Place
Sydney
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Killed in action
Date
26-27 August 1917
Place
Polygon Wood, Belgium
Cemetery or Memorial
Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium
Notes

Name on ROH: D.A. MACNEIL

 

John O’Neil arrived in France in September 1916. In Belgium in August 1917 he was reported missing in action. Fourteen months later a Court of Enquiry decided he had been killed on 26 or 27 August 1917 during an advance at Polygon Wood . His body was never found. He was 22.