BORN HULL 1889. SON OF HUGH O’CONNELL (1865-1900) AND & JANE ANN BRINDLE (1866-1944), OF HULL. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A DOCK LABOURER.
HE MARRIED EMMA K. WITTY (1887-1929), AT HULL IN 1912. THEIR SON, THOMAS, WAS BORN IN 1913. THEIR OTHER SON, DIED AT BIRTH IN 1914.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3/6485, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT NO: 3 TREPORT GENERAL HOSPITAL, ON 07/05/1915, AGED 28. HE IS BURIED AT LE TREPORT MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, NOW EMMA K. STEWART.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL
HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED ON HULL’S SPENCER STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (HULL DAILY MAIL, 01/12/1916).
NB: O’CONNELL’S LIVING AT 1, MOXON SQUARE, MOXON STREET, HULL.
