1874 May 31 Born Wakefield
1891 census at St George Hanover Square, London,
1895 May 29 commissioned 2nd Lt in Seaforth Highlanders
1897 Aug 22. Promoted Lt.
1900 Aug 17 Gets Sudan Medal as a Lt in Seaforth Highlanders
He fought in Kitchener’s Nile expedition, the battle of Omdurman, and the Boer War.
1901 Mar 19 Promoted Capt
1901 May 29 Promoted Brevet Major
1907 Jul 8 married in London to Lilian Vaughan Barron (1878–1949) . At the time of his marriage Angus was Adjutant of the Mounted Infantry School at Longmore in Hampshire.
1910. He retired from the army but was recalled on the outbreak of war in 1914 and served until 1918 with the Lovat Scouts Yeomanry. He commanded his regiment at Gallipoli and afterwards led a brigade in General Allenby's campaign in Palestine.
1911 census at Fawley Mansion, South Fawley, Wantage, Berks. He is a retired brevet major
1915 Jul 17 Lands in France
1917 he entered Palestine and took part in the second battle of Gaza under General Allenby.
1918 Jun 3 DSO gazetted
1922 Feb 18 . Enlisted in Palestine Gendarmerie with rank Col. and he was the Commander. He was not the first choice of Commander, as a number of others turned it down . He was appointed by Churchill . Meinertzhagen had drawn up a shortlist of six others, of whom four turned it down and two were unavailable, while Churchill had recommended Colonel Bernard Freyberg VC who also declined.
1925 Jun 3 CBE Gazetted
1926 the Gendarmerie was disbanded and he left the police
1927 to 1931 McNeill was manager of the Mandatory government’s stud farm at Duboya, north of Acre, and stock-breeding officer for Palestine.
1932 to 1949 he and his wife lived in the Arab village of Mazra’a, some eight kilometres north of Acre and about two kilometres inland from the Mediterranean Sea. His wife, a devout member of the Bahai sect, died in August 1949, and was buried in the British military cemetery in Haifa. He endured many problems both before and after Isreali independence . The General and the Village: The 1948 War and its Aftermath seen from the Sidelines
1949 Sep McNeill was increasingly preoccupied with his health. He decided to move to Cyprus, and in mid-November his son came to help him clear the house, and pack and dispatch his valuables.
1949 Dec 2 he wrote: ‘Red letter day in my life (or “black” if you prefer) it. Final evacuation of Palestine. But what of the future?’ His future, in Cyprus, was, in fact, better than his immediate past. On arrival he was hospitalized, and after a few weeks his leg improved sufficiently for him to move to a small hotel in Nicosia. Despite his steadily deteriorating health he led a fairly active social life, and seems to have been reasonably content.
1950. Jun 22. He kept up his diary until 23 May. He died a month later, and was buried in Nicosia
