KENNEDY, Hugh McIntosh
| Service Number: | 325 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 September 1885 |
| Home Town: | Rockdale, Rockdale, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Brass Finisher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 7 October 1917, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 325, 5th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 325, 5th Machine Gun Company, RMS Orontes, Melbourne | |
| 7 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 325, 22nd Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 325 awm_unit: 22nd Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Hugh McIntosh KENNEDY (Service Number 325) was born in Sydney on 28th September 1885. A brass finisher by trade, he had served an apprenticeship with John Danks & Sons before joining the NSW Government Railways at the Eveleigh workshops in March 1915. In April 1916 he enlisted in the AIF at Randwick.
He was allotted to the 4th Reinforcements of the 5th Machine Gun Company. He trained in Victoria and embarked from Melbourne in August 1916. He landed in England in October. In March 1917 he was transferred from the 5th M.G. Company to the 22nd M.G. Company and sent to France with them.
He was killed in action on th7 October 1917. Owing to a heavy bombardment, his commanding officer later wrote, he and others had withdrawn:
‘to a dug-out for safety, and Pte. Kennedy was amongst them, when after a short time there, a shell came through the doorway of the dug-out, and killed Kennedy instantly, also several others, with the result that they were practically blown into pieces, whom we buried in the field at a place called Zonnebeke, on the Ypres front…’
After the war his remains were recovered, and re-interred in the Tyne Cot Cemetery, 9 kms N E of Ypres, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, resting place of more than 11,900 men from the First World War.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.