I Kennedy . British Army Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders I Kennedy served with the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Jack McNeil Kennedy . Royal Canadian Air Force (d.8th April 1942) My uncle Jack Kennedy was with the Canadian detachment at Pershore, and was in an accident whereby his plane was struck by lightning on 8th of April 1942. What the other elements of the accident might have been are unknown, and while he is buried in the local cemetery, little is known of the days he spent there in Pershore.
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Sgt. James Kennedy . British Army 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers from Ayrshire, Scotland (d.23rd February 1945) James was the son of Francis Kennedy and Ellen Kelly, previously McInally.
Born on the 7th of June 1912, Cleland, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Rflmn. James Francis Kennedy . British Army 1st Btn. (Rangers) Kings Royal Rifle Corps from London (d.1st Jun 1941) My father James Kennedy was killed in the Souda Bay raid. His body was never found. I was 6 years old. My father's name is on the war memorial in Athens. I am also named James Francis Kennedy and am now 84 years of age.
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Jesse Edgar Kennedy . USAAF 466th Bomb Group from Texas, USA I'm helping a friend trace his dad, Jesse Edgar Kennedy (from Texas) who was at Attlebridge, Station 120 in the 466th Bomb Group in 1945,
if you could help or offer any advice to get closer, please drop me a line.
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Flt Sgt. John James O'Neil Kennedy . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 77 Sqd. from Oxford (d.16th Feb 1944) John was a bomb aimer on Halifax Bomber LW341. The plane was shot down on a mission to Berlin which left RAF Elvington on 15th February 1944. It crashed into the Baltic Sea, and John's body was never found. One member of the crew was buried on the Danish Island of Keppel. John was a member of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was just 20 when he died. He is commemerated at the Runnymede Memorial on Panel 219.
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L/Sgt. John James Kennedy . British Army 68th Heavy A A Regt. Royal Artillery (d.30th Aug 1945) My Grandfather, L/Sgt John James Kennedy, was in the 68th Heavy A A Royal Artillery Regt.
He was killed 30th August 1945 andis buried in Mazargues Cemetary, which is just outside Marsailles, South of France.
The story we were always told was that he had chartered a private flight home from France, to surprise his family, as he was travelling via ship, was taking too long. So together with a couple of others, they got a flight, which was then struck by lightening and all aboard died. I have been fortunate on a number of occasions to visit his grave which is kept to an excellent standard by the CWGC. Following recent visit and attempts to find out exactly where and what my grandad's regiment were doing, I keep hitting brick walls. I was wandering if anyone can help me fill in the gaps in regards to manouveres his regt were involved with. Was it that he was a prisoner of war? Any info would be greatly appreciated thanks.
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Sub-Lt. John Bell "Ken" Kennedy . Royal Navy Reserve from London
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Sgt. John Kerr Kennedy . Royal Air Force No. 106 Squadron from Farnborough John Kennedy was my uncle. He served as a sergeant pilot with No. 106 Squadron.
I have his log book from April 19th, 1943 and a photograph of the squadron in front of a Lancaster in which he appears. The last log entry was November 30th, 1945. I also have his tags and service watch vibro etched with his service number. There are several photographs which include the final burial of the squadron.
After the war he spoke little of his service apart from taking time out to work on ammunition trains in Dover - from one dangerous occupation to another!
He survived the hostilities and returned to work at the RAE Farnborough, retiring as a technical grade engineer responsible for wind tunnel models until his retirement. He died around the turn of the 21st century and was a life member of the RAF association.
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Lt.. Joseph P. Kennedy . United States Navy VPB-110 Lt Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr (older brother of the future president JFK) and Lt Wilford J. Willy each served in VPB-110 at Dunkeswell; their names are listed among the fallen of Fleet Air Wing Seven. They volunteered to serve in Special Attack Unit One (SAU-1) piloting PB4Y-1 drones loaded with high explosives for attacks against German V-weapons sites in France. They were lost during a mission in August 1944. Intending to bail out when their aircraft was under radio control, they were killed when their aircraft exploded prematurely. Each was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.
I am a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, not WWII, but I am very familiar with the airfield at Dunkeswell, UK, dating to the three years I served at the U.S. Navy's European headquarters in London during the 1980s. I thought visitors to your site and those who have listed information would want to know that the citizens of Dunkeswell remember those who served at the airfield with Fleet Air Wing Seven.
In the nearby village church in Dunkeswell, a large brass plaque is mounted on an interior wall of listing the names of the 182 men of the Air Wing who lost their lives flying ASW and other missions from the Dunkeswell Airfield. A U.S. flag is displayed next to the memorial. The inscription above their names reads, "In Memory of These Officers and Men of the United States Navy Who Died for Their Country September 1943 to July 1945."
Each summer, the pastor of the church invited a naval aviator assigned to the U.S. Navy staff in London to attend a memorial service for the fallen aviators. It was my honor to attend over three successive years. My wife and I became good friends with the pastor and his wife at the time, the Rev. Nick Walls. He has since retired, and the U.S. Navy relocated its European headquarters from London to the Mediterranean. I don't know if the memorial service continues.
Years later, while serving as the senior editor of the Navy League's Seapower magazine, I interviewed U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy. I told him about the memorial to the men of Fleet Air Wing Seven and the annual observance in the church. He showed me two framed shadow boxes hanging on the wall in his Senate office. One contained Joe Kennedy's Navy Wings of Gold and the gold buttons from his service dress blue uniform; the other shadow box contained JFK's dog tags dating to his wartime service in the Pacific theater as the skipper of PT-109.
I would be pleased to share several photos of the chapel in Dunkeswell, the memorial, and scenes of the airfield as they appeared in the 1980s. A flying club was using the field at that time.
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Greaser M. Kennedy . Naval Auxiliary Personnel HMS Forfar M. Kennedy survived the sinking of HMS Forfar.
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Sq.Ldr. Melville "Bush" Kennedy . Royal Air Force 114 Sqdn. My father flew Bristol Blenheims with 114 Squadron. He was shot down on 31st July 1944. After being in various camps, he fetched up at Sagan (twice). He was there during the Great Escape and the Wooden Horse Escapes. I understand he was a hut leader at Sagan. I have spoken to Red Eames who was there with him and who is contactable through the Blenheim Society. I would love to know if anyone else out there knew my father and has any stories to tell. Unfortunately, Bush died in 1978.
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R Kennedy . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Kennedy served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Richard Kennedy . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria I served on HMS Nigeria from May to August 1945 and HMS Chinkara from September 1945 to September 1946.
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Pte. Ronald Kennedy . British Army 4th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (d.7th May 1942) Ronald Kennedy was 35 when he died and he is buried in the Calvary (Prospect) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Bermuda.
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TH Kennedy . British Army TH Kennedy served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Thelma Kennedy . Land Army
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LAC Thomas Albert Kennedy . RAF 210 Squadron from Pembroke (d.27th Dec 1940)
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CPO. Thomas Wighton Kennedy . Royal Navy HMS Pintail (d.10th Jun 1941) Thomas Kennedy was lost with HMS Pintail.
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PO. William Kennedy . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria My grandad served on Nigeria and Albrighton during WW2, his name was William
Kennedy and I know that he was involved with signals and was a petty
officer. He didn't really share much of his experiences with me as I was
probably too young at the time. I know he was torpedoed twice and was also
invloved in the Anzio landings. I have recently read with huge interest Jack
Edwards "Twenty-Two Hundred Days To Pulo We" and recommend it to anyone else interested in HMS Nigeria during WW2. If anyone can help me by sharing info on links, websites, or anything else that would help me track down a record of my Grandads history in the Navy then I would be most grateful.
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AB. William Adams "Sonny" Kennedy . Royal Navy HMS Ramillies from Aberdeen Sonny, William Kennedy served in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean in WW2.
He was on the HMS Ramillies when it was torpedoed by a midgit submarine at Diego-Suarez, Madagascar and spent a few months in Durban, South Africa when it was in dry dock undergoing repairs.
After the war he sailed with the Royal Family to South Africa on the SS Vanguard.
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Sgt Bernie J Kennedy. . RAF 12sqd
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J Kennell . British Army Sherwood Foresters J Kennell served with the Sherwood Foresters British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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PHG Kenneth . British Army PHG Kenneth served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Cpl. Arthur Kennett . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Bosham West Sussex Recollections of wartime service with Royal Army Service Corps.
When the Second World War started I was employed in a reserved occupation as a livestock driver for a company near Chichester West Sussex. Distribution of livestock was strictly controlled by the Ministry of Food, and I worked long hours delivering livestock to various locations in the South of England. Many of my friends had been called up and I decided that I would enlist. After a few weeks training, I was posted to Egypt with 509 Ammunition Company RASC, part of 44th Infantry Division, travelling by troop ship via Freetown and Cape Town to Port Said. There we reformed as 454 Divisional Troops RASC. Our role in Egypt was to support the Infantry and Artillery by delivering ammunition, fuel and other stores. Our vehicles were Bedford trucks which, being only two-wheel drive, were inclined to get bogged down in sand so progress was often difficult. The sand also had a terrible effect on the engines and carburettors and few of these vehicles lasted for more than 10,000 miles. After 9 months the El Alamein campaign started, on 23rd October 1942, my 20th birthday. The heavy artillery required huge quantities of ammunition as there was a massive artillery barrage in support of the Infantry whose job was to clear paths through the minefields to allow tanks to pass through. After the campaign, we were based on the Tobruk escarpment where the African Pioneer Corps were engaged in breaking sandstone rocks into small pieces which were then used to form the foundation of the runways on a new airfield, which was later to be used as a base for bombing Italy. After Tobruk, 454 Company was disbanded and we were sent to 258 General Transport Company (Heavy Duty) in Palestine where we drove 4-wheel drive Chevrolet trucks which were much more suitable to the terrain. Among our tasks were trips across the Syrian border to buy fruit and vegetables. We also made one trip across the desert to Aqaba (driving on a compass bearing as there were no roads) to relieve the British detachment there who had been cut off by flooding. After 3 years in Palestine I was repatriated to England and posted to Dumfries where I was Corporal in charge of a motor pool at a POW camp at Galashiels. I was finally demobbed in 1947 and returned to my home in West Sussex
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DC Kennett . British Army DC Kennett served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GV Kennett . British Army GV Kennett served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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J Kennett . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Kennett served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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WR Kennett . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WR Kennett served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Ervil Clayton Kennett Jr. . US Army 341st Infantry Regiment, Coy. C 86th Infantry Division from Chatham, New Hampshire My uncle Ken, Ervil Kennett Jr, was a great man. After a firefight on the way to Ruhr pocket he went back to the area to help carry the men back to safety, he made me laugh saying the man he had was corn-feed from Texas.
He was in the battle for Orville, Rouen, from Belgium to Duren, to holding position on the Rhine river. They crossed into Boon to Hilkenback their battalion took the lead to Hagen. While in Hagen a machine gun opened up on them, he had been eating a can of peaches he jumped into a ditch to finish the peaches. They hadn't eaten in 18 hours, After the fight in Hagen was over they took a lot of prisoners. Ken helped search over fifty. He said they were a sorry looking bunch, mostly kids and old men.
They travelled 300 miles walking down to Nuremberg and went 3 days without food. The next real action came down a river called the Altmuhl. They found the bridge had been blown up, and made a beach head so that the engineers could put across a large pontoon bridge, for tanks to flow into Eichstatt. These men had a hard time crossing and German 88s would fire, taking out some of the bridges before tanks could cross. That drive took them onto the Danube river. They walked 28 miles until their cords in their heels hurt.
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