| Regiment/Service: |
49th Battalion (C Company), Royal Canadian Regiment (Canadian Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
03/07/1893
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| Died: |
01/10/1918 (Died of Wounds) |
| Age: |
25 |
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Robert Neville was the son of James and Helena Neville. Robert was born in County Tyrone on 3rd July 1893. The 1911 census shows Robert as 17. He is working on his father’s farm. The family lived at Moygashel, Dungannon. Robert emigrated to Canada where he worked as a farmer. He enlisted on 6th May 1915 at Edmonton, aged 22. He was single and gives his next of kin as his father, James. Private Robert Neville was serving with the Alberta Regiment of the Canadian Infantry when he died in France on 1st October 1919, age 26
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Étaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne. During the First World War, the area around Étaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.
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