Hugh Stowell KENNON

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Service Number:	796
Enlisted:	23 September 1915, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Remount Unit (AIF)
Born:	Ballnaring, Victoria, Australia, 1885
Home Town:	North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Porter
Died:	Victoria, Australia, 1959, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards

23 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 796, 1st Remount Unit (AIF), Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
12 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 796, 1st Remount Unit (AIF), HMAT Orsova, Melbourne
12 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 796, 1st Remount Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
13 Oct 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Remount Unit (AIF)
28 Feb 1919:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st Remount Unit (AIF), At Moascar
20 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 796, 1st Remount Unit (AIF), Discharged at the 4th Military District
Date unknown:	Wounded 796, 1st Remount Unit (AIF)

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Son of Stanley Stowell Kennon and Isabelle Kennon nee Criddlen of Ballaring, Victoria

On 15 August 1914 Hugh married Cora Meadows in St Peters Cathedral, North Adelaide. Father of Stanley Gordon Kennon and Lawrence Arthur Kennon

Commenced return to Australia 26 July 1919 aboard HT Burma disembarking on the 27 August 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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