LEST WE FORGET
Second Lieutenant Donald Augustus MacNEILL
From Australia serving in the Royal Flying Corps
Service No: Not Assigned
Unit: 7th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, based at Warloy Baillon, France
Died: Air Operations, France, 16 November 1916, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Serre Road Cemetery No. 1, Pas de Calais, France
CWGC Additional Information: Born at Charleville, Queensland. Son of Donald and Florence Macneill, of Ducklo, Dalby, Queensland
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 16 November 1916, Second Lieutenant MacNeill (Pilot) and Second Lieutenant Richard Gerrard Ross Allen RFC (Observer), flying BE2c aircraft 2518, went missing on a counter-battery patrol.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives UK RAF Casualty Book AIR 1/967 page 118, 178936