Connah, Percy George

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF EDWARD GEORGE CONNHA AND ADA ALICE BLAGDON, AT THIS ARMY ADDRESS. HIS FATHER WAS A TRAWLER SKIPPER, AND DIED OF DISEACE, CONTRACTED AT GALLIPOLI, IN 1915. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 21/08/1915. DESCRIBED AS 6 FOOT 1 INCH TALL. POSTED TO THE 2ND EAST RIDING ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 24/02/1917. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE 143RD RGA SIEGE BATTERY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION. AT YPRES, ON 11/09/1917, AGED 30. HE HAD SERVED FOR 2 YEARS AND 22 DAYS. UNMARRIED HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS MOTHER ALICE, WHO MOVED TO 30 MASSEY STREET AND 140 WATERLOO STREET.
HE LEFT A BROTHER, ARTHUR AND SISTERS, GERTRUDE AND GLADYS, AT 140 WATERLOO STREET, HULL. HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP”.

NOTE:: H CONNAH, RGA, IS NAMED ON THE EXCHANGE STREET & TUNIS STREET MEMORIAL.


First name:
PERCY GEORGE
Military Number:
118600
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
11/09/1917
Place died:
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
30
2 POPLAR TERRACE, ROSAMOND STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK