| Regimental number | 5456 |
| Place of birth | Inkerman, South Australia |
| School | Public School, Inkerman, South Australia |
| Religion | Methodist |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Cottonville, South Australia |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 24 |
| Height | 6' 1.5" |
| Weight | 152 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Helen Kneale, Angas Road, Cottonville, South Australia |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 10th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/27/4 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 10th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | 'Have never been notified' (Ada Treloar, cousin) |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 26 |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 59 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Henry and Helen KNEALE, Angas Road, Cottonville, South Australia. Native of Inkerman, Port Wakefield, South Australia |
| Family/military connections | Brother: 5457 Pte William John KNEALE, 10th Bn, returned to Australia, 10 September 1917; Cousins: 2414 Pte George Arthur FRASER, 48th Bn, died whilst a prisoner of war, 1 May 1917; 3714 Pte James Little HARPER, 52nd Bn, killed in action, 4 September 1916; 3715 Pte Robert Elmslie HARPER, 52nd Bn, killed in action, 4 September 1916. |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, KNEALE Roy Rutherford |
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