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• Name McCONNOCHIE
• Initials WJ
• First name WILLIAM JAMIESON
• Place of birth Girvan
• Country Ayrshire, Scotland
• Family Son of Thomas McConnochie, of Ayr.
• Profession Engineer
• Extra info Flying certificate taken on Hall Biplane, at Hall School, Hendon, 16 March 1915

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 5th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career to France September 1915

Death

• Wounded Artillery observation patrol with BE2c 1728; left 12.10 p.m.; Ypres; explosion after take off; 1000 feet; fire, broke up and crashed near Abeele. McConnochie was the pilot; the observer, 2Lt. Harvey, was also killed and is buried in Lijssenthoek.
• Type of wounds Killed in flying accident
• Date of death 8 November 1915
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - A - 2

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