Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. James Herbert O'Connor

British Army 1st Btn. Manchester Regiment

from:New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

(d.6th Nov 1918)

My first cousin (2 times removed) James O'Connor served with the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment in Egypt in 1918. He died of illness on active service on 6th of November 1918 and is buried at the Hadra War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt.

James was born in Bury, Lancashire in 1878 and married Sarah Alice Hornby in 1903. They emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA in 1911. At his age James could have sat out the war in the relative comfort of New Bedford but showed his patriotism by returning to England and joining the Manchester Regiment.



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