ISOB Harold Jeffrey McConnell - RAF, Observer
Details:
Grave: I. B. 15.
Isolated BurialAn inscribed Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial headstone commemorating Lieutenant Harold Jeffrey McConnell.
Royal Air Force, 98th Squadron Observer on a De Havilland DH 9 (B7657). The pilot was Captain Gifford Horton, buried at Bedford House. Also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Rifles.
Son of the late William and Mary McConnell, of Spokane, Washington, U.S.A., and Co. Down, Ireland.
Source of photo & information: www.findagrave.com and CWGC
Monument Text:
LIEUTENANT
HAROLD J. MC CONNELL
ROYAL IRISH RIFLES
ATT'D. ROYAL AIR FORCE
31ST MAY 1918 AGE 24
THERE ARE NO DEAD
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
98th Squadron, Royal Air Force
British Army
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Wars:
WWI