Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel A. N. R. McNeill, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Col., D.S.O., R.A.M.C.); War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937, generally good very fine (7) £1600-1800

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Mention in despatches London Gazette 25 May 1918.

Arthur Norman Roy McNeill, was born in Glasgow in April 1886, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1908, and was advanced to Captain in February 1912, while stationed in Mauritius. Back in the U.K. by the outbreak of hostilities, he first entered the French theatre of War in October 1914, and remained actively employed there until the end of hostilities, latterly as an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel and C.O. of No. 7 Cavalry Field Ambulance. Subsequently employed out in India 1923-28, in Malaya 1930-31, and again out in India from 1936-41, he commanded the British Military Hospitals at Mhow and Rawalpindi, in addition to a posting as A.D.M.S. H.Q., 1 Division, Waziristan in 1937, thereby gaining entitlement to his India General Service Medal. Having then been advanced to full Colonel, and served as A.D.M.S. H.Q. Bombay, he returned to the U.K. in 1941 and was A.D.M.S. H.Q. Devon and Cornwall, until that June, when he was placed on the Retired List. He died in London in February 1947.