Other Information:Neville was educated at Marlborough College, qualifying (with honours) as L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. He became an Entomologist and did much research work in that branch of science, becoming a Fellow of the Entomological Society, as well as a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and the Bombay Natural History Society. On 2nd August 1884, soon after he qualified, Neville entered the Army Medical Services as a surgeon. He saw active served in the 1885 Suakim Campaign - gaining the medal with clasp and the Khedive's Bronze Star, and from 1887 to 1889 he was with the Burmese Expedition, where he was severely wounded - receiving the medal with two clasps. He gained promotions to Major on 2nd August 1896 and Lieutenant Colonel on 2nd August 1904. Then from 1908 to 1911 he was Senior Medical Officer in Ceylon, and during this time received further promotion to Colonel on 21st December 1910. From 1912 to 1913 he was at the Curragh, and was appointed Deputy Director of Medical Services in Egypt on 21st December 1913, a position he retained until January 1915, when, by special request, he became attached to the Headquarters Staff of the Australian and New Zealand Forces as Assistant Director of Medical Services. He went with them to the Dardanelles in April 1915. Neville was killed at Anzac, Gallipoli, during the attack on Sari Bair. Sir Alexander Godley, General Officer Commanding, New Zealand and A Division wrote to his family: "He had endeared himself to us all, and had so thoroughly identified himself with this force and had been such a help to us, that his loss will be irreparable. I can hardly say how much I shall miss him and all the help he gave me. He was killed while making plans for the relief of the wounded, on the field in the execution of his duty, and I only hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know this, and to know how highly we all thought of him, and how much we shall miss him both as a Staff Officer and a comrade." Neville was the son of Major Thomas Manders, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), and afterwards Adjutant, P.W.O., Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, and Catherine; and was the husband of Maude Braybrooke Knapp (formerly Manders) of 77 Fellows Road, Hampstead, London - married at St Michael’s Colombo, Ceylon on 15th September 1900.
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