Lieutenant Robert Larmour Neill

Regiment: 5th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles
Panel reference: Panel 9.
Date published: 30/07/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/05/1915
Age at death: 21
Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Information: Lieutenant Robert Larmour Neill, 5th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed in action in France on the 9th May, was the younger son of Mr. Sharman D. Neill, 22 Donegall Place, Belfast. He was educated at Campbell College, where he joined the Officers' Training Corps, and completed his studies at Neuchatel, Switzerland. On his return home he joined the Holywood contingent of the 1st Battalion North Down Regiment, Ulster Volunteer Force. He obtained a commission in the Royal South Downs early in August and left for the front on March 22nd, to join the 1st Battalion, taking out a draft of Princess Charlotte of Wales's Royal Berkshire Regiment.