Early Life
Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa to Leo and Helen Brand as one of seven children. His father had worked as an electrician and bridge building steel worker in Detroit. Neville was raised in Kewanee, Illinois, where he attended high school. After his schooling, he helped support the family employed as a soda jerk, waiter, and shoe salesman in Kewanee. He entered the Illinois Army National Guard on October 23, 1939 as a private in Company F, 129th Infantry Regiment. He was enlisted in the Regular Army as Corporal Neville L. Brand, infantryman on March 5, 1941, he was listed as being six feet tall and weighing 169 pounds.
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