Henry Bernard KENNEDY

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KENNEDY, Henry Bernard

Service Number:	1369
Enlisted:	2 January 1915, Townsville, Qld.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	49th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Flinders, Victoria, Australia, 1880
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Waterside Worker
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 1 May 1918
Cemetery:	Mont Huon Military Cemetery, le Treport, France V G 10A
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Flinders WWI War Memorial

World War 1 Service

2 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1369, 9th Infantry Battalion, Townsville, Qld.
13 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 1369, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: ''
13 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 1369, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Brisbane
1 May 1918:	Involvement Private, 1369, 49th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1369 awm_unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-05-01

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of the late James and Harriet Kennedy, Native of Flinders, Victoria.

R.I.P.

Private Henry Bernard Kennedy, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Kennedy, of Tyson-street, is back at Gallipoli after a spell in an English Hospital. Young Kennedy was one of the big batch of Richmond boys that were among the first to enlist, and he was, with others, apportioned to make up the quota of the 9th Queensland Infantry. He was in the landing at Gaba Tepe on April 25, and was wounded 10 days later. There is a pathetic touch in connection with the letter which we now publish. It was addressed, under date of October 26, to his father, who died at Flinders, -where he had recently, gone to reside, last. Sundays—-'-'I returned' here from England on October 19. Everything is quiet. It is trench warfare now and the percentage of casualties is slight . We do 48 hour's, in the firing line and have' 48 hours off. Coming out from England we were chased by a submarine, but our ship put on 20 knots and proved too fast for the "sub." We get little, news here. Sometimes they paste up war news and sometimes they don't—it is mostly 'don't.' Taking things on the whole we are well off. We get good food and our dug-outs are fairly comfortable. With love to all, and don t forget ''to send along papers."

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