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Private

GEORGE

CONNELL

Numéro de service

Âge

Date de décès

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25

Friday, July 13, 1945

Entreprise:

Researching

Son of Samuel Connell (Dyer) & Margaret Connell (deceased). Husband of Dorothea V. Connell (nee Bews), of Paisley.

War Service details:

Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No). 

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

1st Bttn KOSB location on day of death (According to War Diary)

Germany

George Connell was born in 1920 in Paisley, Scotland.


His death was a tragic accident when he and a couple of friends set out to sea on an old Seaplane Float on the 13th July 1945.


The Inverness Courier, Friday July 20, 1945
The Inverness Courier, Friday July 20, 1945

He and his friends bodies were found over the next couple of weeks. George was 25 and had been married for 2 years.


The Football Times, Saturday, August 4, 1945
The Football Times, Saturday, August 4, 1945

Google Map of the area



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Mémorial

PAISLEY (WOODSIDE) CEMETERY

Compt. 3. Grave 260.

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