IN LOVING MEMORY OF:

John Nee 25 Feb 1918


First Name: John
Last Name:Nee
Rank: Fireman third class,N.R.F.
Regiment: Receiving Ship, Boston
Military Number:Not given
Place of Birth:Bunnahown, Cliften,Co. Galway, Ireland.
Place of Death:Naval hospital, Chelsea, Waltham, Boston died of disease.
Date of Death:25 Feb 1918
Age:26
Additional Information:

Supplementary:

Date of Death: 25 Feb 1018

Buried: New Calvary Cemetery Mattapan, Massachusetts.

Next of Kin: Parents Michael & Mary(nee Nee) Nee.

 

Additional Information:  Brother of Dudley Nee of Somerville, Delia and Mary of Roxbury. Michael, Ainne and Barbara, all of Lehenagh, Cashel Co, Galway. Arrived in Boston in Jul 1912 aboard the SS Laconia. The family is found in both Irish census. 1901, 1911.  John was a shipyard worker in South Boston and also a resident in Massachusetts for six years. John died in the Naval Hospital Boston, the hospital was situated in  Chelsea, Massachusetts. With the closure of the nearby Boston Navy Yard, the hospital closed in 1974.

 

State MASSACHUSETTS.


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Boston Naval Hospital, where a surgeon, nurse and corpsman examine a patient in Ward 6, Group 1, on June 2, 1919 Photo courtesy of U.S. Naval Historical Center, # NH 42355

New Calvary Cemetery Mattapan, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

New Calvary Cemetery Mattapan, Suffolk County, Massachusetts