Neville filed a Petition for Naturalization under Section 701 of the Nationality Act of 1940 — the wartime provision for members of the armed forces — in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, giving his address as Washington Square, New York, his birthplace as Barbados, British West Indies, his birth date as 19 February 1905, and his then-nationality as British. The petition recites both his entry into the U.S. Army and his honorable discharge, so it was filed after the discharge; Section 701 expired on 31 December 1946. Serial number on the document reads 32626752 (army serial number) and the arrival certificate is referenced but not legible in the scan.