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Lt. L. H.D. McCombie
British Army Intelligence Corps
(d.3rd July 1917)
Lieutenant McCombie is buried in the Kabarole Mission Cemetery in Uganda.
Major. William McConachie
British Army 109th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Londonderry
William McConachie was my grand-father, who I never knew as he died in 1930, long before I was born, he served in South Africa then the Great War, initially in 10th Inniskillings before being posted to the 109th Machine Gun Corps, where he achieved rank of Major.
John McConachy
British Army
My Great Grandfather and my Great Uncle Malcolm were said to have passed each other in the trenches. John McConachy was a sniper and Malcolm was a private.
Pte. Arthur McConaghy
British Army 9th (Tyrone) Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Sion Mills
Arthur McConaghy was the son of John and Margaret Jane (Sproule) of Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. He enlisted in the 9th (Service) Battalion (The Tyrones) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 29th September 1914, Service No. 13880.
He was discharged while still at Finner Camp, Co. Donegal on 17th October 1914. Discharged under "Para 392 ECK Reg 1912".
Seaman George Charles McConaghy
Royal Navy HMS Amphion
from:Straw House, Bovevagh, Dungiven, Co. Londonderry
(d.6th Aug 1914)
George McConaghy of HMS Amphion is listed on the War Memorial in the town of Limavady Co. Londonderry. I am an Ex Lt Cdr RN and am researching the stories of all the names mentioned, if you have any information please get in touch.
Pte. Henry McConaghy
British Army 9th (Tyrone) Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Sion Mills
(d.1st July 1916)
Henry McConaghy, was the youngest son of David and Mary McConaghy of Albert Place, Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Henry enlisted in the 9th (Service) Battalion (The Tyrones) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914, Service No. 13938.
He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme – 1st July 1916 and is buried in Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France. He was 21 years old.
Sgt. John McConaghy
British Army 9th (Tyrone) Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Sion Mills
John McConaghy, was the elder of two sons of William and Martha McConaghy of Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. He enlisted in the 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The Tyrones, on 2nd October 1914.
He took part in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, receiving machine gun bullet wounds to his right arm extending from elbow to wrist. These wounds left him unsuitable for front line service and after recovering in a hospital in Sheffield he was eventually transferred to the Labour Corps Serial No. 627449, where he served as a Guard with No. 200 P.O.W. Coy. He also served in the Royal Defence Corps and the Monmouth Regiment. On 9th December 1919 he was transferred to the Army Reserve with the rank of A/C.S.M.
I well remember, as a child sitting on my father's knee, running my fingers down the groove left by the bullet wounds on his right arm, he never talked about it! He died, at the home of his eldest daughter, in Kidderminster, Worcs., England on 19th May 1950.
Pte. John McConaghy
British Army 9th (Tyrone) Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Sion Mills
(d.1st July 1916)
John McConaghy, oldest son of David and Mary McConaghy of Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, Ireland enlisted in the 9th (Service) Battalion (The Tyrones) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914, Service no. 16330.
He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme – 1st July 1916. He has no known grave and his name is inscribed on the Thiepval Memorial, France. He was 34 years old and had married Margaret Elvin, of Sion Mills on 10th July 1913.
Pte. Robert George McConaghy
British Army 9th (Tyrone) Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Sion Mills
(d.6th December 1917)
Robert George McConaghy, was the younger of two sons of William and Martha McConaghy of Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Robert enlisted in the 9th (Service) Battalion (The Tyrones) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914. He took part in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, and came through without wounds.
He was killed in action at the Battle of Cambrai on 6th December 1917. He has no known grave and his name is listed on the Cambrai Memorial, Louvreval, Nord, France
Pte. Samuel McConaghy
British Army 9th (Tyrone) Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Sion Mills
Samuel McConaghy, youngest son of John and Margaret Jane (Sproule) of Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, Ireland enlisted in the 9th (Service) Battalion (The Tyrones), Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914, Service No. 13190. He took part in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, and was wounded. He survived the war and returned to live in Sion Mills
Cpl. John McConnachie
British Army 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
from:54 Bogie St. Huntly, Aberdeenshire
(d.10th June 1917)
John McConnachie arrived in France on the 2nd of December 1915. He was captured at Arras after being shot in the leg and taken to Langensalza POW Camp in Germany where he died on 10th of June 1917.
Mjr. Merrick Hugh McConnel MID.
British Army 295th Brigade, B Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Amersham
(d.14th Sep 1917)
VAD. McConnell
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 32 Stationary Hospital
Capt. Charles Edward McConnell
Royal Garrison Artillery 82nd Heavy Artillery Group
from:Plympton
My grandfather, Captain C.E. McConnell RA, served as adjutant of the 82nd Heavy Artillery Group fighting the Turks at Gallipoli, was part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Allenby and among the first to enter Jerusalem in 1916, when it was captured by the British. As a young man he had served at the Relief of Ladysmith, during the Boer War, meeting the journalist Winston Churchill. He was stationed in Devon and then Malta. An all round sportsman, he became the world Indian Club champion. He had several wartime decorations. After the Great War he moved to Kent, where he became the adjutant of Dover Castle and then set up a small school.
Pte. Daniel McConnell
British Army 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Coatbridge, Lanarkshire
Daniel McConnell enlisted in the 12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry at Hamilton on the 2nd of September 1914. He landed at Boulogne after training on 10th of July 1915. Unfortunately, on 28th of July 1915, only 18 days later Daniel lost a leg and his war was over. He was 21 years of age. Unfortunately, Daniel like so many of his brothers in arms, found it challenging to talk about the war and therefore no stories have been passed down through the generations to tell.
Lt. Hillis McConnell
Royal Flying Corps 34 Sqdn.
from:Canada
Hillis McConnell served with 34 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps.
Pte James McConnell
British Army 27th Battalion (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.5th May 1915)
James McConnell served with the 27th Battalion (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers. He was aged 27 when died on 5th May 1915. Born in Jarrow in 1887 he was the son of James and Elizabeth McConnell (nee Topping) and husband of Mary Ellen McConnell (nee Bucknall) of 57 Walter Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census James McConnell age 23 General Labourer in Shipyard is listed as living with his parents James and Elizabeth McConnell and family at 1 Hurworth Street, Jarrow.
James died in South Shields and is buried in Jarrow Cemetery.
Pte. James McConnell
Australian Army 21st Battalion
from:Footscray, Victoria, Australia
(d.14th April 1918)
James McConnell was admitted to Fargo Hospital on 21st of February 1917 with Bronchitis. He was discharged back to duty 1st March 1917 and was killed in action on the 14th of April 1918 at Dernancourt, France.
Pte. John Allan McConnell
British Army
2Lt. Quentin Edward McConnell
Royal Flying Corps C Flight 76 Squadron
from:India
Quentin McConnell served with C Flight, 76 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He died in June 1968.
Lt. Alexander McConnell-Wood
Royal Flying Corps 73 Squadron
from:Newcastle on Tyne
My uncle Alexander McConnell-Wood left Durham University to join the army in 1917. He eventually became a pilot and trained on the Sopwith Camel. Sent to 73 Squadron on the Western front, he managed to write off 2 Camels and was sent for further training. On rejoining the Squadron, he was credited with half a kill on a German fighter before he was shot down. He elected to leave his stricken Camel and jumped, without parachute and was caught up in trees. He spent the remaining 2 months of the war in a Belgian hospital as a Prisoner of War, which probably saved his life.
Sgt. H. McConville
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
H McConville was discharged sick in 1917
Sister. Kezia Esther "Cassie" McConville CMBE.
British Red Cross
from:99 Hardshaw Street, St. Helens, Lancashire,
(d.6th December 1918)
My mother's sister, Kezia McConville (nee Allen) was born in Runcorn, Cheshire in 1885. In the 1911 Census, she was an asylum nurse at Winwick Mental Asylum at Winwick, Lancashire along with her future husband, Mark Roy McConville.
In July 1915, she enrolled with the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment with Liverpool Merchants' Hospital in Liverpool, and was posted as a trained nurse to Bulstrode Park Hospital, Bulstrode, Oxford Road, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire until the hospital was closed 1st of December 1915.
I surmise that Cassie moved from the Winwick Asylum some time between 1911 and 1915 to begin training as a midwife at the Brownlow Hill Lying-in (Maternity) Hospital in Liverpool where she would have encountered the Matron Margaret Whitson, MC, BRCS (First Class) who in March 1915 was invited by the Liverpool Merchants to become Matron of the Liverpool Merchants' Hospital and later No.6 Hospital British Red Cross), Etaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Cassie was posted as a Sister or Trained Nurse VAD to Etaples on 2nd of March 1916 where she tended the wounded from the Front until 10th of March 1917.
Following her marriage to Roy McConville on Christmas Day in 1916 in Liverpool, and the birth of a son, James Roye, she was posted to the Hospital for Officers, 24 Park Street, Mayfair, London, which received officer casualties directly from the Front. She was finally discharged as a BRC VAD in December 1917 and in August 1918 received her Central Midwives Board Examination. Sadly, four months after her receiving her qualification she became a victim of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and died on 6th of December 1918 at the Westcliff Nursing Home, Pembury Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex with her mother Harriet Allen (nee Jones) by her side.
At present, I have no idea why she came to die in Westcliff on Sea. I have recently discovered, however, that the Westcliff Nursing Home was also known as the Overcliff British Red Cross (VAD) Hospital in Westcliff on Sea, which was located at 14-18 Pembury Road, Westcliff (as listed in Kelly’s Directory, Southend, 1914) under Matron, Mrs. L H Robinson. So, Cassie could very well have worked there tending to the wounded before becoming a patient herself. Cassie is buried in St. Helens Cemetery, Rainford Road, St. Helens with her husband. In 1919, she was posthumously awarded the British and Victory medals.
In the Second World War, the Westcliff Nursing Home (Overcliff Hospital) became part of HMS Westcliff, and was used by the British Navy as a sickbay (as per Jefferies and Lee, The Hospitals of Southend, 1986). In September 2018, the houses comprising the hospital were still standing occupied by Melal Hotel Apartments.
Pte. John McConway
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Hebburn
(d.20th May 1918)
John McConway served with the St. John Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was aged 25 when he died on 20th May 1918. Born in Hebburn in 1893 he was the son of John and Sophia Smith McConway (nee Reid) of Monkton Village Jarrow. On the 1911 census John McConway age 18 Analytical Chemist at Copper Extraction Works is living with his parents John and Sophia Smith McConway and family at 48 Jervis Street, Hebburn.
John is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery and is commemorated on the Monkton Memorial in Monkton Village, Jarrow.
Matron. M. F. McCord
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 46 Stationary Hospital
Pte. William McCord
British Army 9th (County Tyrone) Btn . Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Desertlyn, Londonderry, Ireland
(d.29th of March 1918)
William McCord was the eldest son of William John McCord and Lucinda Wasson. He enlisted in Cookstown in November, 1916 and had completed training in time to take part in the Cambrai battle. He served with the 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in WW1. He was killed in action during the German Spring Offensive just outside Aisne, France on 29th of March 1918. His name is listed on the Moneymore War Memorial.
Mjr. Campbell McNeill McCormack MID, MC & 2Bars.
British Army 15th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.22nd Sep 1918)
Born in Lisburn, Belfast, Campbell McCormack was the youngest son of farmer William McCormack of Hillhall House. He got a scholarship to high school, Wallace High School and to Queens University, Belfast to study medicine and qualified as a doctor in June 1914.
He was a member of the OTC at Queens and joined the RAMC for training at the end of June 1914. From Dublin he embarked for France in August 1914 and was involved in action mainly in France until his death on 22nd September 1918. He was awarded the MC three times for various acts of gallantry and conduct.
- Capt. Campbell McNeil McCormack, M.B., R.A.M.C., Spec. Res. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations. He directed the stretcher-bearers under heavy shell fire with the greatest coolness and courage. He succeeded in entering a village which had been heavily shelled, and, with another captain, a serjeant and four men, collected the wounded into a dug-out and succeeded in getting them back later. He has frequently shown great courage." London Gazette 22nd of September 1916
- Capt. (A./Maj.) Campbell McNeil McCormack, M.C., M.B., R.A.M.C. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During an important engagement he organised the evacuation of the wounded with great skill and devotion to duty, proceeding frequently himself in charge of bearers, through heavy shelling, to the rear aid posts. It was largely due to his able organisation and fine example of self-sacrificing gallantry that the numerous casualties were evacuated so expeditiously. (M.C. gazetted 22nd September, 1916.)" London Gazette, 15th of October 1918.
- Capt. (A./Maj.) Campbell McNeil McCormack, M.C., 15th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During various attacks this officer supervised the collecting of wounded over a large part of the divisional front. He closely followed the advancing troops with his stretcher-bearers, evacuating the wounded skilfully and speedily. On one occasion during a retirement he personally, under heavy fire, reconnoitred the ground where the wounded lay, and by his dispositions of the stretcher-bearers undoubtedly saved their lives and the lives of many of the wounded. (M.C. gazetted 22nd September, 1916.) (Bar gazetted 15th October, 1918.)" London Gazette 11th January 1919.
He was killed at the age of 27 with his friend Lt Col Frederick Bradley DSO by a shell as they rested. They were killed near Bus and buried beside each other in Barastre. They are not forgotten.
Pte. Edward McCormack
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
Pte. Edward McCormack
British Army 2nd Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles
from:Glasgow, Scotland
(d.27th Nov 1916)
I know Edward McCormack served with 2nd Btn Cameronians Scottish Rifles.
Cpl. J. McCormack
British Army 361st Res. Emp. Coy. Labour Corps
from:Summerhill, Dublin
(d.25th December 1918)
Corporal McCormack was the son of Mrs M. McCormack of 10, Richmond Cottage, Summerhill, Dublin.
He was 46 when he died and is buried in the Killeek Old Graveyard, Killeek, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
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