Jeffrey McNeill

Jeff McNeill is an acknowledged authority on the 1917 Battle of Messines in both Belgium and New Zealand. He has guided battlefield tours and given public and academic presentations as a member of the New Zealand Pilgrimage Trust. With his training as a geographer and his expertise in modern mapping technologies, he is able to integrate the social and spatial dimensions so as to make sense of a highly complex military action. A Senior Lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, McNeill holds a PhD in Politics, an MA(Hons) in Geography and a Master of Public Policy awarded with Distinction.