Casualty Captain O'NEILL, THE HON. BRIAN ARTHUR Service Number 49895 Died 14/05/1940 1st Bn. Irish Guards Commemorated at BROOKWOOD 1939-1945 MEMORIAL Location: Surrey, United Kingdom Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 8. Column 2.
PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: O'NEILL, The Honourable Brian Arthur DOB: 31st March 1911 Place of Birth: Astonbury, Hertfordshire Residence: 12 Queens Gate, London, S.W.7 Parents: The Honourable Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill and Lady Annabel O'Neill nee Crewe-Milnes Census: 1911, Astonbury, Stevenage, Hertfordshire Photo: Brother: Casualty Details Lt Col Shane Edward Robert O'Neill (1907 - 1944) - Find A Grave Memorial Probate: Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificate: 1937 SERVICE Personal Number: 49895 Rank: Captain Regiment/Battalion: Irish Guards, 1st Battalion As at 01/09/1939: Irish Guards Orbats: Orbats: Irish Guards CASUALTY CWGC Link: Casualty Details CWGC Certificate: Theatre of War: Norway Date of Death: 14/05/1940 Age at Death: 29 Casualty Type: Missing, Missing presumed Killed in Action, Killed in Action (Chrobry casualty) Cemetery / Memorial: BROOKWOOD 1939-1945 MEMORIAL Memorial Photo: Memorial Reference: Panel 8. Column 2. Panel Photo: Registration: Panel List: Army Casualty List (WO 417): 49895 Captain The Hon O'Neill B A 1939-40 Irish Guards 49895 Captain The Hon O'Neill B A 1939-40 Irish Guards 49895 Captain The Hon O'Neill B A 1939-40 Irish Guards 49895 Captain The Hon O'Neill B A 1939-40 Irish Guards The Times Casualty List: MEDALS Campaign Medals: Medal Roll Details: REFERENCES War Diaries: War Diary: 1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS, September 1939 - July 1944 Archive Files: WO 417 WW2Talk: British aristocracy losses in WW2 Publications: IG History, pgs 8, 10, 11, 35, 41, 43 Accounts: Notes by Colonel Dowler & Brigadier Gubbins, Norway, April - May 1940 War Memorial: Newspaper: The Times, June 4, 1940: "Captain the Hon. Brian O'Neill, Irish Guards, writes a correspondent, met his death under conditions that he would have chosen himself. He was deeply interested in science of soldiering, and active service under Colonel Faulkner - for whom his admiration was unbounded - was to him an enthralling and fascinating experience. His interest in whatever he was doing was one of his greatest charms. He enjoyed to the full such varieties of things as sailing, soldiering, reading, or listening to music, and loved to discuss them afterwards, but perhaps what his friends enjoyed most of all was his sense of humour. His death will leave a big gap in the lives of those who knew him well, but his memory will always be an encouragement and a help to those who survive him. All who can claim to have done so will be proud to have called him their friend." The Times, 15th May, 1942 The Times, 15th May, 1944 Websites: Irish Guards: Roll of Honour - WWII Open Resource Group Capt Brian Arthur O'Neill (1911 - 1940) - Find A Grave Memorial BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL, ENGLAND
1940, Before Embarkation for Norway From left, facing, Captain BA O'NEILL, Lieutenant-Colonel WD FAULKNER, Major CLJ BOWEN, GRAYSON
Second quarter - Army lists > 1940-1946 - Quarterly Army Lists (Second Series), July 1940-December 1950 > 1940 - British Military lists - National Library of Scotland Army List, 1940 2nd Quarter IRISH GUARDS CAPTAINS O’NEILL, Hon. B A [l] (Adjutant 21/01/1939) - 29/01/1939
Second quarter - Army lists > 1940-1946 - Quarterly Army Lists (Second Series), July 1940-December 1950 > 1940 - British Military lists - National Library of Scotland Army List,1940, 2nd Quarter, Deaths: CAPTAINS O'NEILL Honourable B A, Irish Guards Killed in Action
Personal Number: Rank: Name: Unit: Irish Guards London Gazette : 3 January 1930 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33567/page/45/data.pdf Whitehall, 6 December, 1929. The KING has been graciously pleased to ordain and declare that Brian Arthur O'Neill and Terence Marne O'Neill, minors, Sibyl Buxton, wife of Edward North Buxton, upon whom has been conferred the Decoration of the Military Cross, Lieutenant-Colonel (re- tired) Royal Artillery (T erritorial Army) and Mary Louisa Hermione O'Neill, Spinster, the only Brothers and Sisters of Shane Edward Robert, Baron O'Neill, shall henceforth have hold and enjoy the same title, rank, place, pre-eminence and precedence as would have been due to them if their late father Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill (commonly called the Honourable Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill) Captain 2nd Life Guards, had survived his father Edward, Baron O'Neill, and had thereby succeeded to the title and dignity of Baron O'Neill. And to command that the said order and declaration be registered, in His Majesty's College of Arms. London Gazette: 20 January 1931 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33685/page/675/data.pdf Commission: The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be 2nd Lts. 29th Jan. 1931 :— Hon. Brian Arthur O'NEILL. London Gazette : 30 January 1934 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34019/page/679/data.pdf The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lts. 29th Jan. 1934. - I. Gds.- Hon. B. A. O'Neill. London Gazette : 31 January 1939 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34594/page/681/data.pdf I . G'ds.— Lt. Hon. B. A. O'Neill to be Capt. 29th Jan. 1939. London Gazette : 21 February 1939 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34600/page/1210/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. I. G'ds.— Lt. (now Capt.) Hon. B. A. O'Neill to be Adjt. vice Capt. T. W. Gimson. 21st Jan. 1939. London Gazette : 27 August 1940 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34932/supplement/5246/data.pdf Re Captain The Hon. BRIAN ARTHUR O'NEILL, Deceased. Pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925. NOTICE is hereby given that all creditors and other persons having any debts, claims or demands against the estate of Capt. The Hon. Brian Arthur O'Neill late of 12 Queens Gate S.W.7, in the county of London deceased (who died on the 15th day of May 1940, and letters of administration to whose estate were granted by the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of Justice on the 22nd day of August 1940, to Lady Annabel Hungerford Dodds the administratrix of the estate of the deceased), are hereby required to send the particulars, in writing, of their debts, claims or demands to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said administratrix on or before the 2nd day of November 1940 next, after which date the said administratrix will proceed to dis- tribute the assets of the said deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts claims and demands of which we shall then have had notice; and she will not be liable for the assets of the said deceased, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person or persons of whose debts, claims or demands we shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 23rd day of August 1940. CHILD and CHILD, Solicitors for the Administratrix.
Brothers: 36738 Shane Edward Robert O'NEILL, North Irish Horse, also Killed WW2 132246 Terence Marne O'NEILL, Irish Guards Father: Casualty Captain O'NEILL, THE HON. ARTHUR EDWARD BRUCE Died 06/11/1914 Aged 38 "A" Sqdn., 2nd Life Guards Member of Parliament for Mid-Antrim and the first M.P. to be killed during the Great War. Son of 2nd Baron O'Neill and Lady O'Neill, of Shanes Castle, Antrim, Ireland; husband of Lady Annabel O'Neill (now Lady Annabel Dodds). His son Lieutenant Colonel Shane Edward Robert O'Neill fell in the 1939-1945 War. Commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Location: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 3. See cemetery plan