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Pte. Richard Leopold Kent
British Army 11th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:11 Chamberlain Street, Wallasey, Wirral
(d.3rd July 1916)
My great uncle Leo (Richard Kent) and his brother, Edward Kent, were killed in the Great War.
Pte. Thomas Kent
British Army 20th Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 20th, 18th and 15th DLI
Pte. William Kent
British Army 10th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Gateshead
(d.31st Jul 1917)
Private William Kent, 205473, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 315826, Northumberland Fusiliers) was killed in action, on the 31st of July 1917, age 37. He was born in Gateshead, Durham, enlisted in his home town. He was the husband of Louisa Kent, of 33, Waugh St., Gateshead, Durham. William is commemorated at Ypres on the Menin Gate.
William Kent
British Army
Pte. James Kenworth
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Langley Moor
James Kennworth suffered Gunshot wounds in 1916 and 1917
Pte. Hugh Kenworthy
British Army 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Dukinfield
(d.16th May 1916)
Hugh Kenworthy was my great great grandfather. The family never knew where he was killed and as far as they knew he had no known grave. I have been online today searching the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website and have found that he is buried in a French cemetery in Ecoivres. He was killed at Vimy Ridge on May 16 1916. I have let my mother know and she is going to tell the rest of the family. Hopefully we will be able to visit his grave soon.
Hugh left a wife and 8 children, some of whom ended up in the workhouse until rescued by their grandmother. Hugh was not forgotten!! We are trying to find out how he died, although at least we now know where he is.
Cpl. Jesse Howarth Kenworthy
British Army 18th Btn. A Coy. Durham Light Infantry
(d.17th Aug 1916)
Jesse Kenworthy served with "A" Coy. 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry he died on Thursday, 17th August 1916 aged 25. He was the son of Joseph and Anne Kenworthy, of Stretton Villa, Deepcar.
Pte. Thomas Kenyon
British Army 19th (3rd Salford Pals) Btn. A Coy. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Pendleton
Thomas Kenyon joined the 19th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1. He was discharged due to lying about his age on 6th of June 1915.
Pte. William Kenyon
British Army 2nd Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Farnworth, Lancs
(d.9th May 1915)
William Kenyon, was the son of John and Alice Kenyon, and attended Farnworth Baptist Church. He was a collier at Brackley Pit. He enlisted on the 4th of November 1914 in the Lancashire Fusiliers in Bury. He was at Barrow, then Plymouth then transferred to 2nd East Lancashire Regiment on the 19th of March 1915. He was killed on the 9th of May 1915 and is remembered on the Ploegsteert Cemetery Memorial within Berks Cemetery Extension.
Pte. Michael Keogh
British Army 2nd Btn. Dublin Fusiliers
from:Kilkenny, Ireland.
My father, Pte. Michael Keogh,(No.32276 'A' Company - 2nd Battalion), joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, I think around 1918, putting his age up in order to join his brother Patrick Keogh who had just returned from serving in France. My father went to Turkey, Asia Minor, with the Black Sea Army and served in the Anatolian Mounted Infantry. From there he went to India with the RDF and served on the northwest frontier(Punjab) in what is now Pakistan. His discharge certificate is marked 30-10-1926.
He wrote numerous poems and vignets about this period of his life; some of which show extraordinary sensitivity in one so young. In addition, his sense of humour as experienecd through the daily life of a soldier, speaks of another generation of tough, hardy and resourceful men. I grew up listening to his 'war stories'and I gathered the impression that despite the dangers and hardships, the time he spent with the "Dubs" was the happiest in his life. Although he abhorred war and its futility, he held his comrades in high esteem and the code of honour they shared.
Michael Keogh migrated to Australia in 1924 and died there at the age of 70 years in 1971. To his last day he still maintained the bearing of a soldier, something he attributed to his training with the Royal Dublin Fusliliers.
I have some photographs and articles which I will post at a later date. I would love to hear from any relatives of former RDF members who served during this time.
Pte. Daniel Keohane
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots
from:Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, Ireland
(d.19th Jun 1915)
Daniel Keohane was my great uncle. I am very proud of him and his service record. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to have Daniel Keohane mentioned in this wartime memory.
Cpl. William Henry Keon
British Army 6th General Service Regiment
from:Port Adelaide, South Australia
Pte. Jacob Hugo Keorvers
British Army Middlesex Regiment
Pte. Albert William Keown
Australian Imperial Force 5th Infantry Battalion
from:Australia
Albert William Keown was born in Brunswick, Melbourne in 1891. Before enlisting, he was an architectural apprentice at A.W. Purnell Architects, but postponed his apprenticeship to join the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). Keown joined the 5th Infantry Battalion on 17th August 1914 and left Melbourne aboard HMAT Orvieto on 21st October 1914. After spending four months training in Egypt, Keown was sent to Gallipoli with the 5th Infantry Battalion, landing as part of the second wave of attack on 25th April 1915. In May, during the 2nd Brigade's assault on Krithia, Keown suffered a shrapnel wound that badly affected his hand and chest. On 18th May he was admitted to St Andrews Hospital in Malta, and evacuated to England before being forced to return to Australia on 19th November 1915. On his discharge from the AIF on 25th May 1916, Keown quickly re-enlisted and worked as a temporary staff sergeant major at an Officer Training School at Port Melbourne and later as a District Area Officer for St. Kilda. In 1920, Keown finished his military service and returned to finish his articles at A.W. Purnell Architects.
CQMS Dixon "Dickie" Ker
British Army 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:West Oakfield, Hooton, Wirral
This account was published in the the Lucton School (Herefordshire) magazine Vol. 8 no.24 April 1915. The author of the article is dixon ker, my grandfather, who wrote the letter which was edited for his old school magazine after he had been wounded on 6th of December 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres.
The Journey to the Trenches
On January 1st Dixon Ker wrote from the Military Hospital at Lakenham,Norwich, where he was convalescing, a letter from which the following are extracts.
We left Southampton on November 1st for Le Havre where we stood off all day on the 2nd till about 10.30 p.m., when we docked and slept aboard. The following morning we disembarked and had about four miles march to a camp where we spent the next night; leaving on the 4th we entrained at 7 p.m. for an unknown destination. The train journey was lovely; we were packed in cattle trucks with wooden seats, and as we were 30 in each truck we had to sleep in the same, it was a fair crush, what with rifles and packs but we had to make the best of it for about 24 hours when we arrived at St. Omer about 7.30 p.m. After being on fatigues, getting stores and transport ready for marching off it was close upon midnight before we left the station. The company that I am being detailed for baggage guard. We did not arrive at our billets about 5 miles away, till 2.30 a.m. owing to the bad state of the roads and the difficulty of getting the wagons along. The Battalion was billeted in barns and stables at a place called Blendecques, where we spent November 6th to November 19th, training and getting ready for the front. The only thing of interest that happened was the lining of the streets at St. Omer on November 17th when the body of Lord Roberts passed through on its way to England. The Prince of Wales was also present.
On the morning of November 20th we left Blendecques and marched about 18 miles, to Hazebruck where we stopped the night in barns in the vicinity. The roads were like glass owing to a sharp frost on top of rain. I think it was the hardest day we had and we were all very tired and soon fell asleep. Next morning we were on the move again and had 12 miles to do, but the roads were much better owing to a thaw, and we arrived at Bailleul where we billeted in empty houses about 10 miles behind the firing line. On the 22nd and 23rd we rested, but on the 24th we had a route march and we halted in a valley with some of our long-range artillery in the rear. This was done to give us a taste of firing overhead and I must say it made us jump at first hearing the shells whizzing over our heads, but we soon got used to it and then we were taken back to our billets.
We were inspected by General Sir Smith-Dorrien on November 25th, the Prince of Wales being present. After a few remarks by the General we left to join the Brigade we were to be attached to. We soon crossed the Franco-Belgian frontier and, my word! the roads were like little duck ponds. We could only get along very slowly as we had to pass the transports that were coming the other way. We spent the next two nights in a barn at Westoutre. Leaving there about 3 p.m. on November 27th we marched to a place called Kemmell, south of Ypres. It was near here that we had to relieve some others in the trenches, and as the left half Battalion were for duty the right half were billeted in a deserted farm which had escaped destruction. We were packed like sardines in stables, barns and even pigstyes, anywhere with a roof, until 8.30 p.m. on November 30th. It was here that we had a captain killed in the trenches and one wounded; so we came through our first week luckily, although we had to repulse several attacks. I think if we had to stop in the farm much longer some of us would have gone mad as we had to stay under cover practically all the time on account of an enemy aeroplane seeing us and getting their artillery to open fire on us. It was quite bad enough without that as our artillery was in a wood behind us, which they could not put out of action, and we were being fired over practically all day, and some shells fell not 40 yards from us, but a great percentage of the German shells did not burst due to faulty timing. On leaving this place we marched, I mean crawled, back to billets at Westoutre where we stopped till mid-day on December 3rd, when we were inspected by His Majesty. We were drawn up in two ranks, along the road and he simply passed in a motor, looking very depressed as if he had seen enough of us. I am sure we were an awful sight. bespattered with mud and clay, as it was raining practically all the time I was in France or Belgium and we all looked the worse for it. We had about 2 ½ miles to march to fresh billets, which turned out to be dug-outs with straw roofs which would not keep the rain out and it was like being under a riddle.
On December 6th we went to the trenches. This time it was the Right Half of the Battalion's turn after a weary march along slushy roads we arrived at our old quarters, the Farm. As things turned out it was my luck to get a rifle bullet behind my left ear which penetrated my head and lodged in my right jaw, a most lucky escape as a shade higher and I would have been done for. Feeling dazed I was taken back to the Farm to have medical attention, before reaching the trenches. I have heard since that the three days they spent there were very cold and wet, and when they were relieved they were about done for. It took them all their time to walk as some of them were suffering frost-bitten feet. I left the Farm about 8 p.m., in a horse ambulance wagon, and spent the night at a place called Loare. From there I was taken to Bailleul and the next morning I was put in the train for Boulogne. I was suffering from a swollen cheek which was rather sore, but some of my companions in the carriage were very badly wounded. I spent 5 days in a hospital in Boulogne before I left with 60 others in a private yacht, called the ˜Albion, for Southampton. On arriving there all that were well enough had a nice warm bath which I am sure we needed. I underwent an operation on December 23rd and my souvenir was removed. They got it from the inside of my mouth so I shall not be disfigured. Now I am practically well again and just waiting for my warrant to go home for three weeks sick furlough.
Pte. Alfred James Kerby
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 195th Btn.
Pte. Walter Kerby
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
(d.1st July 1916)
Bmbdr. Patrick Kerins
British Army 14th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hull
(d.21st April 1917)
Patrick Kerins, my grandfather, died when my mother was only 4 years old. Her only memory of him was of being distraught when he had to return to the war after being home on leave, he had given her a penny and she lost it. Someone offered her another penny but she wanted her Daddy's penny.
Sgt Frank Kerman MM
British Army 7Th 7th Batt the East Kent the Buffs
from:Enfield, Middlesex
(d.8 April 1918)
Frank Kerman was my great Uncle on my Mother's side of the family, younger brother of her father, John Drumgold.
Frank was born in West Ham, London and grew up in Lewisham. He first joined the Army in 1914 but was discharged as undersize (information from pension records) he then rejoined the army under the name Kerman.
He was awarded the Military Medal at the time the battalion fought at the Schwaben redoubt and Regina Trench in 1916(reference in book about the Buffs in the Great War), He was killed during the fighting just before the battle of Amiens in 1918.
His medals and a photograph are in the keeping of a collector some how they had made into the collector Market. There is a photo of his grave on the Internet and I am putting all of the information together so that the CWGC can update his grave record.
Pte. Thomas James Kernaghan
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Annaloughin, Fivemiletown
(d.4th Dec 1915)
Thomas Kernaghan was my great uncle. He was 20 yrs old when he passed on. He was wounded in battle, but died of his wounds in a field hospital. He is buried in Rouen in France. This story was told to me by my brother.
I can't imagine what this young man was thinking when he went to war at such a young age, but we are extremely grateful for his valour and sacrifice not only to his King, but his family and friends. So many who died are not remembered, so, it is up to us, future generations to remember all who sacrificed there lives so we can have peace in ours.
Lest We Forget.
Tel. Thomas Haig Kernahan
Royal Navy H.M.S. Radstock
from:Barrhead
Thomas Kernahan joined HMS Radstock as a boy telegraphist, aged 16, when the ship was commissioned on 20th of September 1916. He left the Radstock on 31st of October 1919, the complement of the ship being reduced at that time.
Cpl. Walter William Ã?� Kerner
British Army 2nd Btn. G Coy. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
L/Cpl. A G. Kerr
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Mjr. A. E. Kerr
British Army 20th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Sgt. Andrew Smith Kerr
British Army 157 Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:31 Main St. Beith
(d.19th Apr 1917)
Pte. Arthur Ernest Kerr
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
David Kerr
Mercantile Marine Reserve HMS Avenger
from:Gourock, Scotland
(d.14th June 1917)
My great grandfather David Kerr was the only person killed on the Avenger when it was hit by a submarine torpedo on the 14th of June 1917.
Lt. Finlay Kerr
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Kingsdown, Co. Dublin
(d.5th July 1916)
Lt. George Francis Kerr VC, MC & Bar, MM
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3rd (Toronto) Battalion
from:Canada
Gnr. George Kerr
British Army 175th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
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