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Private John Kennedy

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Military service

Service number: 455117
Age: 39
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 13th Bn.
Birth: August 7, 1879 Lonsdale, Ontario
Enlistment: July 27, 1915 Ontario
Death: February 20, 1919

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. A. 20.
Additional information
Son of Michael and Anne (née Naphan)Kennedy, of Tyendinaga Township, Hastings County, Lonsdale, Ontario. Husband of Mary Elizabeth (née Williams)Kennedy of Belleville, Ontario.

Father of Sister Mary Annette and Leo. Brother of Ellen, Mary Anne, Lucy, Alice, Elizabeth, Richard, Michael, Joseph, Teresa, Loretta and Margaret Ellen.

Lance Corporal Kennedy was employed with the Belleville Police Force from October 1907 to March 1909, as well, he worked in the Livery business and with the Grand Trunk Railroad for a period of time.

He sailed overseas on the SS Olympic. He saw action in the Somme, Vimy, Hill 70 and the battles of the final 100 days.

He was written up in the Belleville Daily Intelligencer: 'Pte J. Kennedy is mentioned with the party of stretcher bearers for the Distinguished Conduct Medal for carrying wounded off the field while under heavy shell fire'.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 536 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HUY (LA SARTE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY Belgium

HUY (in Flemish, Hoei,) is a town in the Province of Liege, on the river Meuse, between Namur and Liege. The HUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY of La Sarte serves the hamlet of that name. It stands high up the hill on the South side of the town, commanding wide views of the Meuse valley. It contains German, French and Russian War Graves; and in the North corner is a plot, of 329 square yards, in which are buried 55 Canadian soldiers and 54 soldiers and airmen (including two unidentified) from the United Kingdom.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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