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Born at Sheikh Budin, North-West Frontier Province, India, on 10 July 1909, the 1st son of Walter Gordon Neale, a Political Agent, and Grace Margaret [Fass] of Bhopal, Gordon was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire (1923-1927) and achieved a 4th class degree in Modern History from Corpus in 1930. He then joined the Army and was attached to Scottish Greys, the 20th Lancers and then the Indian Army: he also spent a year in the Indian Foreign and Political Service before returning to the Scinde Horse and the Indian Armoured Corps on the North-West Frontier Province in 1939. He married Joan Mary Rose, the daughter of Lt-Col J L Weir; in 1938 and they had 2 sons, including Christopher Gordon Neale (who came up to Corpus in 1960). He died on active service in a motor accident on 11 November 1942 (aged 33).