Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Carleton Kennedy, banner, Carleton Place, Nov 2018

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flying Officer Carleton Gladstone Kennedy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flying Officer Carleton Gladstone Kennedy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Id card – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of CARLETON GLADSTONE KENNEDY – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Gravemarker

Newspaper Clipping – Source: Globe and Mail, September 18, 1944

Monument – Public Memorial, Cumberland Ontario

Photo of Carleton G. Kennedy – Flying Officer Carleton G. Kennedy,(2) was killed on his first mission in a Halifax bomber August 30, 1944. His name is engraved on the Public Memorial in his home village of Cumberland, Ontario and he is never far in our memory. Carleton's father, Robert J. Kennedy,(1) served with the Canadian Artillery in the Great War and fought in all the significant operations of the Canadian Expeditionary Force until he was seriously wounded and rotated home. He was an eye-witness to every major Canadian operation through Vimy Ridge. All three of Robert Kennedy's eligible sons served in the RCAF during the Second World War. (A fourth son was only 16 when the war ended.) Sadly, one (Carleton) would not survive the war. Irving Farmer [Hap] Kennedy (3) was born in Cumberland, Ontario, just 15 miles from the Peace Tower in Ottawa, in 1922. In 1940 he joined the RCAF, became a Spitfire ace with more than a dozen enemy aircraft shot down, and in 1944 commanded a Spitfire squadron in Normandy. Robert A. Kennedy,(4) Trained in Prince Edward Island before being sent to England in late 1944 where he was attached, ironically, to the 6 Bomber Group (where his younger brother had been killed in August of the same year.) He worked in wireless communications with Halifax and Lancaster bombers. In 1945 he volunteered to transfer to the Pacific Theatre, but shortly thereafter the Atomic Bomb expedited the end of the war. 5. Joyce M. Kennedy, Joyce earlier served as a Flying Officer in the RCAF assigned to Europe, NORAD, & RCAF HQ. Submmitted with the permission of Joyce Kennedy. By Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping

Photo of Donald Kennedy – Photo credit: The Memory Project www.thememoryproject.com Mr. Kennedy's brother, Flying Officer Carleton G. Kennedy flew with 434 Squadron, RCAF, Yorkshire, England. He was killed on August 30, 1944.