Neale Fitzgerald-Eager

Flying Officer

Conflict:

WW1

Additional Information:

Son of Edward and Isabel Fitzgerald-Eager (nee Neale), Kilbirnie.

References:

Martyn (2008)

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

On a flight from Ramleh (now in Israel) to Ismalia, he went off course and was forced to land in the Sinai desert. His body, and that of the passenger, AC1 P. Thacker, were found a week after landing, on mountains near Nekhl. A Court of Enquiry agreed that the date of death was that of the flight and that exposure was the likely cause of their death.

Although born in Australia, he was in New Zealand before he was 12 years old. He enlisted and travelled with the NZEF main body, before transferring to the RFC and RAF.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Vol 1 p. 55]

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Casualty

Name:

Neale Fitzgerald-Eager

Name variation:

NEALE

Rank:

Flying Officer

Date of Birth:

06 November 1882

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Armed Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Air Force, 14 Squadron

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Air Accident

Date of Death:

14 June 1920

Day of Death:

Monday

Conflict:

WW1

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Suez War Memorial Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

B. 79.

Cemetery Location:

Egypt