Stanley Ewart KENNEDY

KENNEDY, Stanley Ewart

Service Number: 6361
Enlisted: 16 October 1916, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds, Moore Park, Sydney.
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 20th Infantry Battalion
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 30 August 1898
Home Town: Guildford, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Railway Carriage Painter
Died: Died of wounds, Belgium, 10 October 1917, aged 19 years
Cemetery: Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No.3
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

16 Oct 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6361, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds, Moore Park, Sydney.
11 Nov 1916: Involvement Private, 6361, 20th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1916: Embarked Private, 6361, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
9 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6361, 20th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to head. Died the next day at the 2nd Anzac Medical Dressing Station, Belgium.

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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Stanley Ewart KENNEDY (Service Number 6361) was born on 30th August 1898 in Sydney. On 1st September 1914 he began an apprenticeship as a painter in the Locomotive Branch of the NSW Government Railways.

When he joined the Expeditionary Forces on 16th October 1916 at the Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds, he had completed  two years of this apprenticeship. He described himself as a ‘Coach Painter’. He was unmarried and gave his father as his next of kin. He also claimed four years in the Senior Cadets and two years with the Militia - and he was just a couple of months beyond his 18th birthday!

Kennedy left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Suevic’ on 11th November 1916 and disembarked at Devonport (England) on 30th January 1917. He joined the 5th Training Battalion a Rollestone.

In April he had an Absent Without Leave charge heard, but no disciplinary action was taken.  It was 1st August before he joined the 20th Australian Infantry Battalion on France. Little more than two months later, on 9th October, he was wounded in the head with a gunshot. He reached the 2nd Anzac Medical Dressing Station, Belgium, but died there the next day, 10 October.

C.J. Murray 6383 reported:

‘I saw Kennedy killed outright by a shell while coming out near the front line near Passchendaele Ridge. Cannot say anything as to burial as I was wounded myself 9th and carried out 10th.’

He was buried in the Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3, 3½ miles due West of Ypres.

A pension of 16/- per fortnight was granted to his mother Frances Elizabeth.

- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.

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