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Lance Corporal John William Kennedy

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Korean War Monument

Citation(s);

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea
Canadian Korea Medal
United Nations Service Medal (Korea)

Military service

Service number: B801253
Age: 22
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Division: PPCLI
Birth: December 22, 1928 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: August 18, 1950 Toronto, Ontario
Death: November 5, 1951 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN)
Additional information

Husband of Teresa Rita (née Kelly) Kennedy. Father of John Walter. Son of James and Lillian Kennedy of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of James Arthur, Noel William, David Timothy and Gertrude Kathleen.

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Korean War (1950 – 1953)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 35 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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