Sydney Edmund Dermot NEILL of Dunedin NZ [13359]

   Cause of his death was pneumonia.

  General Notes:

2016
Dermot Elworthy comments on his grandfather "I remember him quite well as a kindly (a characteristic unusual in the seen-and-not-heard brigade of those days) and gentle man"

New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950
Sydney Edmund D. Neill
Birth Date: Jan-Feb-Mar 1886
Registration Place: Dunedin, New Zealand
Folio Number: 884

New Zealand Army WWI Reserve Rolls, 1916-1917
Sydney Edmund Dermot Neill
Residence : Dunedin
Year: 1917
Reserve Roll: 2nd Division

New Zealand, World War II Appointments, Promotions, Transfers and Resignations, 1939-1945
Sydney Edmond Dermot Neill
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Military Date: 1 Nov 1942
Military Place: Wellington, New Zealand

Sydney Edmund Dermot Neill
Birth Date: abt 1886
Death Age: 58
Death Date: 9 Mar 1944
Burial Place: Otago, New Zealand
Cemetery: Dunedin

Neill Sydney Edmund Dermot of Dunedin New Zealand died 9 Mar 1944 Probate to Gladys Amy Neil widow and The Trustees Executors and Agency Company of New Zealand Ltd. Effects £600 4s 5d in England. Sealed Llandudno 8 Mar 1945
National Probate Calendar.

Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009
Sydney E D Neill
Death Date: 9 Mar 1944
Death Place: N Zealand
Occupation: Merchant
Grant Date: 22 Dec 1944
Grant: PLS

Transvaal Province, South Africa, Estates Death Notice Index, 1855-1976
Sydney Edmund Dermont Neill
Death Year: 1944
Death Country: South Africa
Title: Transvaal Estates Death Index (Master of the Supreme Court, Pretoria)
Source: National Archives, Pretoria
Reference Number: 2489/46

Sydney married Gwladys Amy WILLIAMS [13360] [MRIN: 1970], daughter of Robert Bernard WILLIAMS [22065] and Unknown, in 1912 in New Zealand. (Gwladys Amy WILLIAMS [13360] was born in 1890 in Dunedin New Zealand, died on 16 Jan 1977 in Dunedin New Zealand and was buried in Dunedin New Zealand.)