Editing Neville Howse (section)

===First World War===
[[File:Neville Howse - Anglo-Swiss (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright|Portrait of Howse in uniform taken by a studio in Cairo]]
When the First World War began, Howse was appointed principal medical officer to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force to [[German New Guinea]], with the rank of lieutenant colonel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/219218 |title=First World War Service Record – Neville Reginald Howse |publisher=[[National Archives of Australia]] |access-date=8 October 2014}}</ref>

[[File:1st Division Staff.jpg|thumb|left|Group portrait of 1st Division staff officers at Mena Camp, December 1914. Howse, then a lieutenant colonel, is in the front row, fifth from the left.]]

Following his time in New Guinea, he was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services [[1st Division (Australia)|1st Australian Division]]. During the [[Gallipoli campaign]] he took charge of evacuating wounded men from the beach in the campaign’s opening days. In 1917 at the Dardanelles commission, he described the arrangements for dealing with wounded men at Gallipoli as inadequate to the point of 'criminal negligence'.  He was [[Mentioned in Despatches]] for his service in this campaign.<ref name='GazetteMID'>{{London Gazette |issue=29251 |supp=y |page=7668 |date=3 August 1915 }}</ref>

In September 1915 he was given command of [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps|ANZAC]] medical services and in November became director of the AIF’s medical services, with the rank of surgeon-general.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29393 |page=12199 |date=7 December 1915 }} ''Surgeon-general''.</ref> When the [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] moved to France, Howse took up a position in London, overseeing medical services in France, Egypt and Palestine. At the beginning of 1917 he was promoted to [[major general (Australia)|major general]].<ref>Braga 2000, p240.</ref>

Howse was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in the 1915 [[King's Birthday Honours]],<ref name='GazetteCB'>{{London Gazette |issue=29202 |supp=y |page=6112 |date=22 June 1915 }}</ref> was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 22 January 1917,<ref name='GazetteKCB'>{{London Gazette |issue=29916 |supp=y |page=923 |date=23 January 1917 }}</ref> and appointed [[Venerable Order of Saint John|Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem]]<ref name='GazetteKStJ'>{{London Gazette|issue=31380|page=7064|date=3 June 1919}}</ref> and [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 1919.<ref name='GazetteKCMG'>{{London Gazette|issue=31395|page=7425|date=6 June 1919}}</ref> From 1921 to 1925 he was Director-General of Medical Services.