Maurice McCONVILLE No7 Commando & Jack Leech No3/7 Commando

Hi There,

I am looking for any relatives of
Maurice McCONVILLE 5947918 No7 Commando
John (Jack) Ernest Leech 5948937 No3/7 Commando

I have got some documents/letter been handed to me and would love to reunite them.

Thanks

Vicky

Good luck Vicky
Let's hope you can locate the family
Paul

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5947918 Corporal Maurice James McCONVILLE Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment & 7 Commando
28th October 1914 Ahmednager, India - 1976 Greenwich, London
Enlisted in the Beds & Herts Regiment in 1932
Posted as missing 20th April 1941 during the raid on Bardia
Camp 78, Italy and Stalag IVB

I can't find any evidence that he was ever married.

Wow that?s amazing. Where did you find that?

Vicky

Extract from a file held at The National Archives listing British PoWs held in PoW Camps in Germany;

4B = Stalag IVb (Mühlberg, Elbe)

266419 = PoW Number

Nick

Vicky,
He was a member of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regimental Boxing Team. The photograph was taken in 1936, so Cpl. McConville would have been 21 or 22.
Guy

NIC, thanks for this. Where can you get access to things held at the National archive?Do you have to pay?

Guy, the pic is brilliant. Nice to put a face to a name. What website did you get it from?

Thanks for all your help

Vicky

I think I have found out the following:

Father: James McConville (was a Major)
B 6/12/1883
M 7/1/1914 in Ahmednagar, India
D 7/9/1969 living at 17 Muirfield Road, Worthing

Mother: Mary W Hanley (think she sometimes goes by middle name Winifred)
B 18/1/1894 in India
M 7/1/1914
D Sept 1941 in Surrey district

Children: Maurice James McConville
B 28/10/1914
M never married
D 30/11/1976 living at Anchor House, 81 Barking Road, London, E16
Cremated 9/12/1976 at Hither Green Cemetary (Lewisham)
He was a ships officer when he died

His brother Michael Anthony McConville is listed on the cremation document. It states his ashes were sent back to Caterham on 10/12/1976

Michael Anthony McConville
B 1925 in Uckfield district
M Beryl Jerrett (1922~2013)
D 30/5/2008
In the 1951, 1952, 1953 electoral rolls were living in Middlesex

Hi Vicky

vsseym wrote: NIC, thanks for this. Where can you get access to things held at the National archive? Do you have to pay?

Some files are online and free;
others are online but there is a fee to download.
Some files(eg. War Diaries) are held by The National Archives at Kew and you can visit and read the original documents...
On your first visit you get a ten minute induction after which you get a Reader's Card (£5) which is valid for 5 years. You then order the files you want to view and are allowed to photograph them!
You may use your own camera,
Use one of the NA's fixed cameras - you can email the results back to your self,
Pay the NA to photograph the files for you! £££

The first time you visit once you have ordered your first file you may have to wait up to 45 minutes for it to be delivered, so the secret is to order a second files as soon as your first is delivered, then the third as soon as you've finished with your first and so on...
On subsequent visits to Kew you can order your first file a day in advance so it will be there ready for you as soon as you walk through the doors.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

I would recommend it if you are within easy travel to Kew...

Nick