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The 1911 census lists the family at house 85 in Main Street, Aughnacloy. Edward Maginnis was a merchant tailor. The census records the family as having two children. The second child presumably being the new born and as yet unnamed George. |
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George Alexander Maginnis was born on 10th May 1911. He was the second of at least five children, all born in Aughnacloy. |
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George Alexander Maginnis was the oldest son of Edward and Matilda Maginnis. Edward Maginnis and Matilda Tillie Orr were married on 25th September 1907 in the district of Dungannon. |
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George Alexander Maginnis was the uncle of Ken Maginnis. Kenneth Wiggins Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass (born 21 January 1938), is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician who sits as a Life Peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1983 to 2001. |
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The CWGC record Lieutenant G A Maginnis as the son of Edward and Matilda Maginnis, of Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. |
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Lieutenant George Alexander Maginnis was interred in Ranville Cemetery on the following day. He was 33 years old. |
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At 9am on the morning of 18th July 1944, at Le Mesnil, Breville, Lieutenant Maginnis was standing at door of B Company H.Q. when a mortar bomb landed in yard of the farm. Lieutenant Maginnis was hit by shrapnel and died almost immediately. |
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Lieutenant George Alexander Maginnis was serving with the 1st (Airborne) Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles when he was killed in action. |
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George Maginnis was commissioned on 6 September 1941. |
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He played rugby for Ulster. |
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George attended the Royal School, Armagh |
