George Henry Kells

Rank:	Private
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Town/Village:	Tashinny
Civil Parish:	Taghshinny
Catholic Parish:	Carrickedmond
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Alternative Address:	Spamount Street, Belfast,/ 54, Hillman Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim
Census 1901:	Recorded at Spamount Street, Belfast http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Dock_Ward/Spamount_Street/937391/
Census 1911:	Recorded at Spamount Street, Belfast www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Dock_Ward/Spamount_Street/138445/
Regiment/Unit:	Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 7th Battalion
Regiment Number:	16747
Date of Death:	14-06-1915
Cause:	Pneumonia, Tipperary.
Memorial:	St. Mary's Churchyard, Co. Tipperary
Information:	George Henry Kells was born 25 January 1891 in Tashinny, the youngest of seven children (Lillie, Martha, Mary Jane, Emily, Thomas and John James) to John Kells, a coachman. The family moved to Belfast when George was a child, after his father's death in 1896. By 1911, George Henry was working as a coachman himself. Pte Kells enlisted in Belfast, but passed away in the military hospital in Tipperary from double pneumonia and heart failure.
Parents Names:	Son of the late John James Kells and Mary Jane (née Norris), of 54, Hillman Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim
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Links:	Link to CWGC; Civil Register of Birth; Civil Register of Death;

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