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Stephen Cannon
(1812-1872)
Alfred Cannon
(1854-1905)
Eliza Mewborn
(1858-1941)

Hugh Stanley Cannon
(1888-1914)

 

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Hugh Stanley Cannon 26,29,30,292

  • Born: 15 October 1888, Sandford On Thames, Nr Oxford
  • Died: 30 October 1914, Ypres, Belgium aged 26
  • Buried: 1914, Ypres Menin
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bullet  General Notes:

Educated at Roysse's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. Attached to the 6th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division as despatch rider and left for the front 6 October 1914. Killed whilst on his motor bicycle carrying Despatches at the First Battle of Ypres.

From CWGC

CANNON
Initials: H S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 6th Signal Troop
Age: 26
Date of Death: 30/10/1914
Service No: 28754
Additional information: Son of Mrs. E. Cannon, of Woodhatch, Egham,
Surrey, and the late Alfred Cannon.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 30.
Cemetery: YPRES TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION

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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

1. He appeared on the census in 1901 in Roysses School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

2. He appeared on the census in 1911 in Wood Hatch, Egham, Surrey. 10

3. He served in the military in 1914 in Private.

4. Promotion: 1914, Corporal.




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