William Charles Douglas VEALE (Bill)
CBE MC DCM ED

William Charles Douglas Veale CBE MC DCM ED was a soldier, engineer and town clerk who was born on 16 May 1895 in Bendigo, Victoria. He was the youngest child out of his 10 siblings. 

He was enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and joined the 5th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers on the Western Front. He helped whilst under fire and moved wounded members of his party to safety. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his heroic act. Veale was in service for a total of forty-two years.

In January 1947 Veale was appointed town clerk with the Adelaide City Council. He was to hold the post for nearly nineteen years, overseeing much of Adelaide's postwar development. He initiated an extensive programme of landscaping and beautification, and created new parks and gardens, boating lakes and picnic grounds. After years of shabby neglect, the city's parklands were transformed.

In his later years, he spent his time gardening at his North Adelaide home. Adelaide’s south parklands were named after Veale in 1964. 

William Veale became the third President of the Legacy Club of Adelaide in 1930.

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