[4] McNeaney had a successful career as a competent commercial artist before he joined the Royal Flying Corps on 5 May 1917.
79 Squadron RAF, flying the Sopwith Dolphin and successfully claimed four German Fokker D.VIIs and a Halberstadt C destroyed.
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after he and two others engaged about ten Fokker D.VIIs near Paschendale in Belgium on 28 September 1918.
He died on 1 March 1919 and was buried at Fulham Old Cemetery in West London,[3] just south of Hammersmith Bridge.
(FRANCE) A gallant and courageous airman who has accounted for five enemy aeroplanes, displaying at all times marked skill and devotion to duty.