Name
William McConaghy (DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/07/1918
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Royal Army Medical Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order (posthumous) Egyptian Order of The Nile 4th Class.
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
D. 89.
Egypt
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 12 Jul 1881 and baptised on 29 Sep 1881 in Poonah, India son of Surg. Gen. William McConaghy (Bombay M.S.) and Mary Broderick McConaghy of "Ferndale," Westward Ho, Devon. Educated at the United Services College 1889-1898.
Wartime Service
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant R.A.M.C. in 1905. Died on active service in the Sinai Peninsula.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
