Major Ian Graham McNeill

Date of birth	1933-06-12	Melbourne, VIC.
Other	1950	Entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
Other	1954	McNeill graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
Other	1955	Was posted as a rifle platoon commander to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment then serving in Korea.
Other	1957	Became a founding member of 1 Special Air Service Company as a platoon commander.
Other	1961	Joined the headquarters of the Australian Army Force in Singapore.
Other	1965	Joined the Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam, as a military advisor.
Other	1971	Participated in the final anti-war Moratorium march.
Other	1972	Joined the Military History Cell at Army Headquarters in Canberra.
Other	1982	Resigned from the army with the rank of major.
Date of discharge	1984	Joined the Australian War Memorial's Official History Unit.
Other	1993	Published ‘To Long Tan’, the first official history volume on ground operations in Vietnam.
Other	1997	Awarded a Doctorate of Letters for 'The Team' and 'To Long Tan' from the University of New England.
Date of death	1998-10-03	Died of a heart attack in Canberra, ACT.
Other	2003	The successor volume to 'To Long Tan' was published as 'On the offensive'. McNeill was working on 'On the offensive' at the time of his death.
Other	2012-04	The final volume ‘Fighting to the Finish', (completed by co-author Ashley Ekins), published and completing the nine-volume official history series.