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Cpl. James George McConney
British Armt 1st Airborne, Signals Royal Corps of Signals
from:Harrogate, Yorkshire
(d.28th March 1943)
George McConney was the only son of Jonathan Randolph McConney and Ivy Eleanor Steele, born in London on 17th June 1922. According to his sister Violet, my mum, he was a paratrooper. He was participating in the North African theatre in Tunisia when he stepped on a mine on 28th March 1943. He is laid to rest at the Tabarka Ras Rajel war cemetery. He was awarded the 1939-45 War Medal and Star.