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Son of Richard Thomas Cannell and Frances Celia Wynne. Husband of Helen Mullarky, of West Derby, England. Father of four children, including James, Thomas Michael and Robert Anthony Cannell. In the First World War Richard enlisted on July 23, 1915, at Shorncliffe, England, with the 52nd Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 438170. Transferred to the 8th Battalion, he fought in France and Belgium where he was wounded in action at Ypres on June 3, 1916. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Harold died of smallpox on January 20, 1946, at Willingdon Island, Cochin, India.
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Page 107 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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