KENNEY, Eric Alfred
| Service Number: | 443 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | 19 January 1881, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Herberton, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Surveyor- Survey Office Brisbane; Superintendent of Survey- Federated Malay States |
| Died: | Clayfield, Brisbane- Queensland, Australia, 18 November 1951, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland 2A-21-14 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 443, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 443, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 443, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Thomas Aloysius KENNEY and Lizzie Anna nee LARDNER
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Full name was Eric Alfred Lardner Kenney.
When he enlisted as Eric Alfred Kenney in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father T. A. Kenney, Post and Telegraph Master, Herberton. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 109, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs. L. Kenney, Post Office, Herberton.
Eric Alfred Lardner Kenney was born on 19 Jan 1881 in Queensland, a son to Thomas Aloysius Kenney and Lizzie Anna Kenney (nee Lardner).
His father, Thomas, worked for the Post and Telegraph office for 45 years and served as a Post and Telegraph Master at a number of regoinal towns, including at Herberton where they were residing when his son Eric enlisted for the Boer war. When Thomas passed in 1927 an obituary was published in The Brisbane Courier, 16 Aug 1927, which noted he was survived by his wife, two daughters, and his son Eric who is a Government Surveyor at Singapore.
When Eric Alfred Kenney returned from the war he was employed by the survey office in Brisbane. Around 1910 he secured the position of Superintendent of Survey in the then Federated Malay States and had a base in Singapore. It was reported in The Telegraph (Brisb), 2 Feb 1932, that he returned to Australia aboard the ship Nieuw Holland after retiring from his position of superintendent of survey in the Federated Malay States after 22 years service. Following retirement he resided in the Brisbane suburb of Clayfield, the same suburb his parents had resided after his father retired.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominl Roll, Murray p. 502; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 109).
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