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KENNEDY, Ronald
(Service number 3/1402)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	15 July 1894	Place of Birth	Amberley

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Posr-office, Temuka
Occupation	Cadet Postal Department
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Miss Mary KENNEDY (sister), 3 Woodlands Road, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	HMS Marama
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	New Zealand Medical Corps
Date
Transport	Marama - Hospital Ship No. 2, 1st Voyage from NZ
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	18 March 1980	Age	85 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 169, Plot 21
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Ronald Kennedy was the son of Alexander and Jane (née Hislop) Kennedy. Duncan was educated at Dalbeg and Fairlie schools. His brother Duncan also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 March 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [24 March 2017]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [24 March 2017]

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