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Military service
Service number:
B/112565
Age:
20
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 31, 1923
Greenock, Scotland
Enlistment:
May 11, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 7.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kennedy, of Mimico, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
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Gravemarker
This photo of Rfn Kennedy's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1997. -
Photo of Albert Wilson Kennedy
This photo of Rfn Al Kennedy was in the possession of LCpl Rolph Jackson, the 2IC of his section and one of two survivors of the section on D-Day. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Albert Wilson Kennedy
Rifleman Albert Kennedy died a hero for his family and country. He was an unmarried man with no known children. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ALBERT WILSON KENNEDY
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Newspaper clipping
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Circumstances of death
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Letter
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Wilson Kennedy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 351 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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