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Pte. Augustine Joseph Neylan
British Army Remount Army Service Corps
from:Battersea
My grandfather, Augustine Neylan, had incredibly bad eyesight but still wanted to serve in WW1. Gus joined up in May 1915 aged 25 and was posted to Romsey. Although we know that he was fairly quickly sent to France. This may have been due to the fact he had gone to school in Belgium and spoke some French. He spent time in Le Havre and he used to take horses up to the front as we have postcards he sent from Ypres and have anecdotal evidence of him serving as a clerk for an officer. I wish I knew more, but I never got to meet him as he died in 1945, years before I was born.
