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Lance Corporal FRANCIS CONNELLY

Service Number: 3245920
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SITTARD WAR CEMETERY

H. 6.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Peter and Elizabeth Connelly, of Glasgow; husband of Maria Connelly, of Glagow.
  • Personal Inscription UNDER FOREIGN SKIES, FAR FROM THOSE WHO LOVE HIM BEST, IN A LONELY GRAVE HE LIES
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

SITTARD WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 239
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