CONNOLLY, John Stewart Francis Gordon
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
'30 Commando Assault Unit'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
PLY/X3944
Born:
Wednesday, December 6, 1922
Birthplace:
Eriskay Island, Harris, Hebrides
Died :
Friday, January 5, 1945
Died on war service
Age:
22
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Corporal Connolly, 30 Commando Assault Unit, died at his billet at 47 Maxwell Road, Littlehampton, Sussex, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. Son of Thomas Francis Connolly and of Jenny Lilian Connolly, of Brae. The Inquest at Horsham later recorded that he had been taking a bath and was overcome by fumes from a faulty water heater.
Sources
CWGC.
Registers Of Reports Of Deaths: Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/129.
Cheltenham Chronicle 13 Jan.1945, p2.
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