James McNeill, Jnr., died in France from gas poisoning on June 27th, 1916. He was 25 years of age, and had enlisted as a private in the Glasgow Regiment in October, 1914. He was afterwards transferred to the Highland Light Infantry, and at the time of his death had risen to the rank of Acting Sergeant.
Mr. McNeill was apprenticed to a firm of analytical chemists and assayers in Glasgow, and for several years attended classes at the Glasgow Technical College. From the end of 1911 until he joined the Army, three years later; he was employed in the armour shop laboratory of Messrs. William Beardmore & Co., Ltd., of Glasgow.
Mr. McNeill was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 26, Trans IMM 1916-17, p.271
