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Unit
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No. P/3555, Military Mounted Police (38th Division HQ).
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How & When Died
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Died, 30 October 1918.
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Age, if known
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25 years.
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Next of Kin details
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Son of Gregory and Martha McConnell, of 29, Beechwood View, Cardigan Lane, Leeds.
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Commemoration Details
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Buried in Awoignt British Cemetery, France. Plot II, Row A, Grave 9.
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Other Information / Remarks
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Herbert McConnell was one of five brothers who all served during the Great War. At the time of the war the family lived in
Headingley, Leeds, and Herbert McConnell is named on the War Memorial there.
He had previously served with The Royal Army Medical Corps, Army Service Corps, and the Coldstream Guards before being
transferred to the Military Mounted Police. His brothers all survived the war.
Some time after the war ended the McConnell's moved to Scholes. The youngest brother, Leslie joined the cricket team in
the village and opened the bowling for them for more than twenty years. Leslie McConnell also set up the youth group in the
village in 1942 at the request of Rev. Metcalf. It was this group which laid out the Festival Garden where the War Memorial
now stands. Leslie McConnell moved away from Scholes some time later but returned in 1964 to open the new youth wing at Scholes
School.
Herbert McConnell is further commemorated on his family headstone in the Churchyard of All Saints Church Barwick in Elmet.
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Photographs
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Remembering the Fallen of Two Villages on the Eastern Fringes of Leeds.
Site built by Nigel Marshall
Copyright 2006-7
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