KENDALL, Kenneth Victor Elliott
| Service Number: | 735 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 5 October 1898 |
| Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | East Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Fireman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 28 August 1918, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France VII.B.24, Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Daours, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Barolin State School HR, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour, Bundaberg War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 735, 13th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
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| 21 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 735, 13th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne | |
| 28 Aug 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 735, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 735 awm_unit: 41st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-08-28 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Amanda Price
Kenneth was the grandson of Bundaberg's most influential and benevolent founding families, the Kendalls, for whom Kendall Flat is named. Richard and Salome Kendall, his grandparents, were immigrant agriculturists and purchased 600+ acres of prime land near Bundaberg. Fittingly they called their homestead "Eden", as it was a place of sanctuary for the homeless, fellow farmers and anyone in need. When his grandfather died, the Bundaberg gazette wrote, "Bundaberg...has lost one of its most sterling, upright and consistent colonists, who will be impossible to replace." Kenneth inherited his grandparent's kindness and sense of service, electing to become a fireman in his early manhood. He never lost his love of the land, or his love for his family and especially his brother, John Burnett Kendall. His comrade and friend was the fine young soldier Ernest Head who was the first to hear of his passing. Kenneth's grave can be found in Daour Communal Graveyard in France. His headstone is engraved at his mother's request with "no greater love has any man than this".
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