Quite faceles for such a high profile man
1892 Jun 1. born Cork
1901 census at Castlelyons Town ,Castlelyons, Cork
1911 census at Lisnagar Demesne ,Rathcormack, Cork
1914 May 1. enlisted in RIC #67810
1914 Nov 10 posted Limerick
1916 May 26. enlisted in Army, Leinster Regt
1917 Mar 1. Commissioned 2nd Lt in Leinster Regt
1919 Apr 17. Lt. M. J. McConnell (4th Bn., Leins. R., Spec. Res.) to be Adjt., Lab. Group, 17 Apr. 1919 to 19 Dec. 1919.
1920 Apr 1 Gazzetted out, relinquishes commission 4th Leins. R.— Lt. M. J. McConnell, and retains the rank of Lt.
1919 Dec 22. re-appointed to RIC
1920 Jan 12 Promoted DI3
1920 Dec 8 Convoy Officer at Gormanstown
1922 Mar 25 Disbanded
1922 Mar 27. enlisted in Palestine Gendarmerie as a Major. He had been a DI 3 In RIC
1924 Jun arrives uk from Palestine Major M J McConnell. Crossed out on manifest
1933 Aug married in Cheshire to Florence Dorothy Littlehales. (1904-1933)
1933 Dec 5. his wife died in Jaffa
1935 arrives UK with wife Mary. Government Service. 1st Class
1941 "Michael Joseph McConnell, British chief of police in Jerusalem, was the next target. The plan was to trap McConnell’s car; he was accustomed to leave his house in Talbiyeh, picking up his driver on the way and continuing to police headquarters. The idea was to trap the car and to plant mines on the way to the English cemetery on Mt. Zion, detonating them at the time of McConnell’s funeral. The plan was approved, but not the minelaying along the road to the cemetery, as there was a concern that Jewish drivers would be injured by the detonations. McConnell’s vehicle was in fact caught, but on that morning, it was his Arab driver who took the car from the garage, and so he was driving it and was the one killed in the explosion.
1944 Jun 8 , CBE to Michael Joseph McConnell, Esq., Colonial Police Service, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Palestine
1944 "Rymer's senior Staff officer,Michael Joseph McConnell .... came up with a complete plan for the Police Mobile Force PMF) but the government of Palestine could not pay for its creation. Rymer flew to Britain to ask the War office for money and men. So desperate was the position in Palestine as he described it, that, despite the situation in France where the battle for Normandy was taking place, the War Office allocated him £2,000,000, and allowed 800 service men who had been on active wartime service in Italy, North Africa and Britain to transfer to the PMF,- created as a fully militarized strike unit under the command of the Palestine Police.
1946 Jan 1. He was deputy Inspector Genaral of Palestine Police and was awarded Meritorious Service Medal for Colonial Police
1947 Died Bromley, Kent, Oddly I cannot find an obit