William McNeish was working as for the Public Works Department and living at Fruitlands in Central Otago when he joined the Army in 1941. He was reported as taken prisoner (previously missing) in Greece in August 1941 and spent time in Kokkinia PoW hospital before transfer to Lamsdorf in Poland.
He was repatriated on medical grounds in 1943. He initially was reported as safe in Egypt in November 1943 and died, presumably of his wounds, in Dunedin in 1944.
McNEISH. — On July 10, 1944, at Dunedin. William Robert, dearly beloved husband of Netta Emily McNeish, and loved father of Billy, and beloved son of L. and the late A. McNeish, of 2 Vernal street, Kensington; aged 31 years. Deeply mourned. — The Funeral will leave our Mortuary Chapel, Clark street, on Thursday. the 13th inst., at the conclusion of a service commencing at 3 p.m., for the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery. — Hugh Gourley, Ltd., funeral directors. -Otago Daily Times, 12/7/1944.
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