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EDWARD GEORGE CONNAH
Hull
Kingston upon Hull HU3 3RA
England
BORN LONDON 11/01/1859. SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER "770". HE WAS MARRIED TWICE. TO KATE SMITH ON 24/12/1878, AND HAD FIVE CHILDREN. HE THEN MARRIED ADA ALICE BLAGDON, IN OCTOBER 1907, AGED 48.
HE CONTRACTED DISEASE AT GALLIPOLI, AND DIED AT HASLAR NAVAL HOSPITAL, ALVERSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE. HE LEFT £33 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, ADA ALICE BLAGDON, WHO LIVED AT 2 POPLAR TERRACE, ROSAMOND STREET, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS).
HIS NAME IS LISTED AS "DIED", ON THE ETON STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, HESSLE ROAD, HULL.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE ST PAUL CHURCH BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE 1914-1918 (133 NAMES). THE BOOK CAN BE VIEWED AT THE HULL HISTORY CENTRE Ref No: L DL SP/1).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 20/11/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
NOTE: CHARLES HENRY CONNAH, RNR, LIVED AT 6 JAVA TERRACE, ETON STREET, HULL.
Kingston upon Hull HU5 3SR
England
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