Ashtead War Memorials - Lt Michael Bourke Connell
The Royal Irish Fusiliers (attached The Glider Pilot Regiment)

L: Royal Irish Fusiliers top: Glider Pilot Regiment

The Times August 7, 1943

Missing in July 1943, during the invasion of Sicily, Lt. Michael Bourke Connell, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (attached The Glider Pilot Rgt.) dear only son of Carol Connell of Moorlands, Ashtead, Surrey (now at Felcourt, West Farm Close, Ashtead) and the late Cecil Bourke Connell, aged 24.
via Ann Williams

CWGC record: http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2069561
Serving with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, he was seconded to the Glider Pilot Regiment, AAC. He died on 10/07/1943.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 11 of the CASSINO MEMORIAL.

page added: 5 Feb 2009: If you can add to this page please contact the editor
page last updated 13 Feb 2009