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Détails victime
Informations personnelles
- McCONNEL
- MH
- MERRICK HUGH
- Alfreton
- Derbyshire
- Son of William Houldsworth McConnel and Florence McConnel, of Heath End House, Basingstoke
- Winchester; Woolwich
- Husband of M. C. McConnel, of Polydores, Holmer Green, Amersham, Bucks. His wife was the daughter of Major-General H.E.Belfield.
Données militaires
- Major
- Mentioned in Despatches
- 295th Brigade Royal Field Artillery "B" Bty.
- 59th Division
- B.E.F.
- Obtained his commission in the R.A. in 1904; served in England for eight years, acted for some time as A.D.C. to Major-General H.E.Belfield; was in India when the war broke out; went to France October 1914; twice mentioned in despatches.
Décès
- 13 September, while observing for his battery in an exposed position near Ypres (east of Cambridge Road); the war diary log reads for 13 Sept "in morning batteries registered initial line of barrage programme. At 5.35pm this programme was carried out:officer observing Major McConnel of B Bty 295 Bde RFA was wounded during observation and died the next day"
- Died of shell wounds
- 14 September 1917
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