Private Alexander Connah

Army Number : 74231 (formerly 28535 Royal Welsh Fusiliers)

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Hawarden, Flintshire, North East Wales. Son of Benjamin and Mary Ann Connah, of 27 Brook Street, Buckley, North East Wales. . He was a brick worker prior to enlisting 12th March 1915 at Buckley into the 19th Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He went to France 1st June 1916 and suffered accidental gunshot wounds to his left thigh, 31st December 1917. He was treated at 56 Casualty Clearing Station. He was transferred to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 6th April 1918 and died of wounds, 5th September 1918, at 53 Field Ambulance at La Chapelette, France.

Buried : Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 2. Row F. Grave 8

Private Alexander Connah is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Buckley War Memorial, Buckley, North East Wales.

His brother Private John Thomas Connah, Machine Gun Corps, also fell in the Great War.