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Pte. James Alphonsus Kavanagh
Royal Navy 2nd Btn. Royal Marine Light Infantry
from:Bandon Road, Cork, Irealnd
(d.3rd June 1916)
James Kavanagh enlisted in Galway under age. He was born in 1900 in Cork and was a resident of Eyercourt, Galway.
Sgt. James Kavanagh
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Kilkenny
(d.31st January 1918)
Serjeant Kavanagh was the Husband of Mary Kavanagh, of 11, Wolfe Tone St., Kilkenny. His brothers Edward and Thomas also fell.
He was 32 when he died and is buried in the south east part of the Kilkenny New Cemetery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
Cpl. Jeremiah Kavanagh
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Clare Street, Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
(d.9th May 1915)
Jeremiah Kavanagh, son of John & Mary Kavanagh (nee MacNamara) of 61 Clare Street, Limerick City, Limerick, Ireland, enlisted with his cousin Dennis Kavanagh (also a native of Limerick City) in the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Both were killed at the battle of Aubers Ridge on Sunday 9th of May 1915. Jeremiah has no known grave and both he and Dennis are commemorated on the war memorial at Bethune. The battalion suffered heavy losses during this action due to, according some sources, mismanagement, substandard equipment and munitions. Although several works have recently been written on this battle, it still remains an action that was conveniently forgotten by the British Army.
Pte. John Kavanagh
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Little Bray
(d.1st March 1918)
John Kavanagh who served as P. Ashford, was the son of William and Annie Kavanagh of 6 Back St., Little Bray. John was aged 25 when he died and is buried on the far side of the ruin in the Old Connaught Burial Ground, Little Bray, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Pte Philip Charles Kavanagh
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Eastliegh
Philip s Kavanagh was he was a tailor's assistant in London prior to the war (1911 census). His unit was sent to Palestine at the start of the war and at some period later he was transferred to the 1/8th (Isle of Wight Rifles) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment where he served till the end of the war returning home in 1919. He was injured by falling into barbed wire during the battle for Beersheba which required time in hospital.
Pte. William Kavanagh
British Army 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.31st Jul 1917)
William Kavanagh was serving with 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment when he died on the 31st of July 1917. He is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. William Kavanagh
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Blackrock, Dublin
(d.24th May 1915)
Dvr. Kishn Kawar
Indian Army Eastern Divsion Ammunition Column RoyalField Artillery
(d.1st Sep 1919)
Kishn Kawar is buried in the Euskirchen New Town Cemetery in Germany.
Pte. A. Kay
British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
(d.1st September 1918)
Private Kay is a relative of my cousin.
Pte. E. Kay
Australian Imperial Force. att 3rd Salvage Coy. 37th Btn.
Pte. Elias James Kay
British Army 9th (Pioneers) Battalion Gordon Highlanders
from:Preston, Lancashire
My great-grandfather, Elias James Kay, was a Lancastrian working at Denny's shipyard, Dumbarton, Scotland, when he joined the Gordon Highlanders in 1914. He was allotted to 9th Battalion, which was later designated as the Pioneer Battalion. After training at Aldershot and Haslemere in Hampshire and Perham Down in Wiltshire, the battalion, as part of 15th (Scottish) Division moved to France. There Elias saw service at Loos, some of the Somme battles, Arras, Third Ypres and many others.
When the Pioneer battalions were reorganised Elias was transferred to the Division's 46th Brigade and 10th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). It was with the Scottish Rifles that he was wounded and invalided home, never to return to combat.
His father (also Elias) had died in 1916 and of Mrs Alice Kay's three other sons who had enlisted Harold, was also invalided home in November 1916 from 1/4th Loyals. John and Albert were bothkilled on the same day the 20th of September 1917 in the 'Passchendaele' offensive (Third Ypres) serving with 1/7th King's (Liverpool) Regiment.
Elias married Alice Thompson in the last few months of 1917, perhaps when granted compassionate leave following the death of his brothers. He raised a family after the War (including my Nanna, Ena Elizabeth Kay) and served in the Admiralty Civil Police at a naval air base at Inskip during the Second World War. He had flecks of shrapnel leaving his body right up to his death in Preston in 1951. Elias was much-loved, his son Elias (known as Ellis) even inherited a love of the pipes from him.
It has been a moving and illuminating process to trace Elias's wartime service and I have recorded the story in a book: "The Road Unknown - With Private Elias Kay and 15th (Scottish) Division in the Great War."
L/Cpl. F. Kay MM.
British Army 237 Coy. Machine Gun Corps
I bought the Military Medal belonging to 86331 L/Cpl F.Kay 237 Coy Machine Gun Corps, also his British War Medal, engraved: 86331 PTE F.Kay Machine Gun Corps.
Pte. George Kay
British Army 2nd East Lancashire Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Harpurhey, Manchester
Pte. Harry Kay
British Army Army Veterinary Corps
According to Harry Kay's Medal Rolls Index Card, he entered the French theatre on 26th of June 1915. Neither of his Service Medal and Award Rolls offer much more information than the fact Private Kay was released To Class Z, but no date is given. All attempts to access his service record or a pension record were unsuccessful, it is very likely that his records were among those destroyed during the Second World War. For his service in the Great War, Private Harry Kay, Army Veterinary Corps, was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Pte. James Kay
British Army 1/4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Sheffield
(d.26th Aug 1918)
James Lloyd Kay
Canadian Air Force
Jim Kay was born in 1898 and grew up in Nebraska. His father was a doctor and his mother had died when he was very young. At the age of 16, he lied about his age and got work on a merchant ship that was bound for Europe.
When he arrived in England, the Great War had just begun, it was 1914 and he and his companions decided that with all of the technological advances in weaponry, the war would only last 3 months and if they wanted to be part of it, then they should enlist. Jim lied about his age again and joined the Canadian Air Force. He started as a mechanic on the airplanes and worked up to a gunner sitting in the seat behind the pilot and firing a Lewis machine gun from the shoulder. He was shot down (the pilot was killed) and eventually became a pilot.
The U.S. didn't get into the war until the last year and he transferred to the U.S. Army and was shot down during that time period and spent the rest of the war in the hospital.
After he returned to the states he flew mail from Omaha, NE. to Gillette, Wy. The descriptions he gave and the stories he told make me realize the intuition, bravery, and dauntless courage our ancestors had when faced with adversity and how many took advantage of the opportunities offered to them. He died in 1989. He received no military funeral nor recognition. His records were destroyed in a fire years earlier and the government left it at that. He has no children to carry on his name or legacy.
Pte. John Brayshaw Kay
British Army 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Warrington, Lancs
My grandfather, John Kay, was recruited into the Civil Service Rifles in 1916; he had been employed as a clerk in the Civil Service from 1915, aged 18.
He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, and was captured in March 1918. From the date given on the Red Cross POW record card - 22nd of March, it seems likey that he was captured during a gas attack in the St Quentin area. He awoke on board a train having been stripped of his ID. Two days later he arrived at Crossen-an-der-Oder POW camp in Eastern Germany (now Poland). He remained a POW until the end of the conflict.
When he returned home, he brought with him a small painting done by a fellow prisoner, a Frenchman named Etienne St Paul, showing the watchtower at Crossen camp. The painting remains in our family to the present day.
Pte. John Brayshaw Kay MBE.
British Army 202 Company Machine Gun Corps
from:Warrington
John Kay was born 6th of October 1897 in Warrington, Cheshire. He enlisted in the Civil Service Rifles in 1915 & was tranferred to the MGC. Whilst in action on 21st of March 1918, he was captured at Hargincourt in a gas attack & sent to Crossen-an-der-Oder POW camp in eastern Germany (now Krozno in Poland since 1945). He survived his time in the camp, working as a farm labourer and was repatriated home in early 1919.
Whilst in the camp, he was befriended by a French Corporal called Etienne Saint Paul who gave John a small painting he had done of the Watchtower at Crossen camp. We still have the painting in the family today. After repatriation, John went back to the Civil Service and was subsequently awarded the MBE in 1955 for his long service in public office. He married in 1921 & had four children. John died in 1973. I am proud to be one of John's 16 grand-children.
John "Jock" Kay
British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Comrie, Perthshire
Family legend says Jock, John Kay was a sniper.
Pte. Max Kay
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:338 Hessle Road, Hull
(d.9th Apr 1916)
Max Kay enlisted in Hull, 1915, aged 23 and was assigned to the Royal Army Medical Corps. Following training in Tweseldown, Surrey, he was assigned to the 13th Western Division and travelled to Mesopotamia (via Egypt) in early 1916. He died from his wounds on 9th April 1916, aged 24 in Mesopotamia (Iraq).
He was mentioned in dispatches by General Sir Percy Lake dispatches of Oct 1916 and received two medals, the British War Medal and Victory Medal. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.
Pte. Robert Kay
British Army 23rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.20th July 1916)
Robert Kay served with the 23rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps in WW1. He died 20th of July 1916 and is buried Morlancourt British Cemetery in France.
Pte Thomas Leslie Kay
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:77 Bold St, Accrington, Lancs
(d.2nd Jun 1918)
Kay, Thomas, Leslie. Private, 66253, Killed on 2nd June 1918. Aged 19 years.
Buried in Senlis Communal Cemetery Extension, North West of Albert, in grave I. B. 12.
Son of Alice Ellen Bickerstaffe (formerly Kay), of 77 Bold St, Accrington, Lancs. and the late Thomas Kay.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. Thomas Kay
British Army 13th Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Wheelock, Cheshire
(d.13th July 1916)
Thomas Kay was born in London around 1886. In 1901 he was living at Wheelock Wharf where he met Elizabeth Hodson and had a son called Thomas Hodson Kay born in 1908. He worked as a canal boatman and prior to signing up to the Kings Liverpool, was living in Hulme Manchester and was unmarried. He signed up in 1914 and left for France in 1915.
Thomas was killed in action on 14th of July 1916, his service and sacrifice are not forgotten.
Pte. Thomas Kay
British Army 13th Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
(d.14th Jul 1916)
Sjt. W. Kay
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. William Henry Kay
British Army 10th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Grangetown, Yorks
(d.19th May 1918)
William Henry Kay was from a large family that originated in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, having 11 brothers and sisters. He was married to Sarah and they had three children, James, Noah and Jane. He was a blast furnaceman in Middlesbrough before the war and they lived in Grangetown.
He started his military career in September 1914, when he joined the newly formed 10th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps. In June 1916 he was promoted to Sergeant. In Aug 1916 he transferred to the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment then in September to the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
In March 1917 he was transferred again to the Durham Light Infantry, but was soon moved to the Labour Corps, probably due to ill health. By May 1918 he was back in DLI barracks in Newcastle where he died of a heart attack on the 19 May 1918. His son James, who was 14 when war broke out, also served, but I can not find any details. He survived the war but died in an accident a few years later.
Pte. William Kay
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
L/Cpl. William Kay
British Army 1/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Heywood, Lancashire
(d.4th Jun 1915)
William Kay died in Gallipoli on the 4th June 1915 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. He left behind two children, a girl under the age of three at the time of his death and a boy, who was born several months after the outbreak of war and whom he never had the chance to meet.
Capt. Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth
British Army 11 Bde, D Battery Royal Field Artillery
(d.30th Mar 1917)
Captain Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth served in the Royal Field Artillery. At the time of his death he was commanding D Battery, 11th Brigade RFA. He was killed in action during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on the 30th March 1917.
A. E. Kaye
British Army 11th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment
Pte Kaye served with the King's Liverpool Regiment 11th Battalion. He was treated at Red Gables Hospital in Bletchingley, Surrey. On 20th December 1915 he signed Sister Atkin's autograph book.
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