Lieutenant R.W. McConnell

Regiment: King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Attached: Indian Expeditionary Force
Date published: 09/06/1916
Killed in action: No
Information: Lieutenant R.W. McConnell, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, was the second son of Rev. James McConnell, B.A., Megain Memorial Presbyterian Church, Belfast, and a nephew of Rev. F. C. Gibson, Ormond Quay Presbyterian Church, Dublin. He was educated at Campbell College and Queen's University, Belfast, where he had a distinguished career as a student, and at the annual meeting of the Literary and Scientific Society, of whose Council he was a member, in 1915 he was awarded the Dufferin Medal for Oratory. He received his commission in February, 1912. He served at Suvla Bay and took part in the evacuation of Gallipoli. He was afterwards attached to the Indian Expeditionary Force for the relief of General Townshend, and was slightly wounded on April 5th, 1916, but bravely remained on duty until the 9th.