POSTED AS MISSING IN FRANCE
LIEUTENANT N. E. O’NEILL (United Press Association) AUCKLAND. July 16. Advice has been received by Dr E. J. O’Neill, ship’s surgeon of the Aorangi, that his son, Lieutenant Niall E. O’Neill, medical officer attached to the Inniskilling Dragoons, is posted as missing in France. Lieutenant O’Neill, who was born in Dunedin, was educated at Christian Brothers’ School, Dunedin, and at St. Bede’s College, Christchurch, graduating in medicine at the Sydney University. Lieutenant O’Neill, who is 30 years of age, travelled to London for postgraduate training and joined the Army shortly before war broke out. He is not married.
His father, Dr O’Neill, who practised medicine in Dunedin until 1927, has been serving on trans-Pacific liners for 11 years. He held the rank of colonel in the New Zealand Medical Corps and won the D.S.O. while serving with the Anzac Division at Gallipoli. He was also honoured with the decoration of C.M.G. Both he an' 1 , his son are well known in New Zealand.
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Southland Times, Issue 24180, 17 July 1940, Page 5
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