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Father of Sister Mary Annette and Leo. Brother of Ellen, Mary Anne, Lucy, Alice, Elizabeth, Richard, Michael, Joseph, Teresa, Loretta and Margaret Ellen.
Lance Corporal Kennedy was employed with the Belleville Police Force from October 1907 to March 1909, as well, he worked in the Livery business and with the Grand Trunk Railroad for a period of time.
He sailed overseas on the SS Olympic. He saw action in the Somme, Vimy, Hill 70 and the battles of the final 100 days.
He was written up in the Belleville Daily Intelligencer: 'Pte J. Kennedy is mentioned with the party of stretcher bearers for the Distinguished Conduct Medal for carrying wounded off the field while under heavy shell fire'.
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Digital gallery of Private John Kennedy
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Photo of John Kennedy
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Photo of John and Lib Kennedy
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Photo of John's Children
Annie and Leo Kennedy -
Photo of John's wife and their son Leo
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Photo of John's Parents
Michael and Anne (née Naphan)Kennedy -
Photo 2 of John Kennedy
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Photo of John and fellow police officer
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Photo of John Kennedy and fellow soliders
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Family Photo
left to right: brother Mike, sister Loretta, brother Dick, sister Lucy, brother-in-law Joe Williams, sister Tess -
Photo of John's Sister Nellie
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John's Family
Starting at back, left to right: son Leo,daughter-in-law Georgina, daughter Sister Mary Annette, wife Lib; front left to right: grandchildren Frank, Jack, Jim, Marilyn -
Post Card
Postcard sent to his wife Lib, from a fellow solider John Shea of Belleville who chummed with John. -
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Postcard sent to his wife Lib, from a fellow solider John Shea of Belleville who chummed with John. -
Post Card 3
Postcard sent to his wife Lib, from a fellow solider John Shea of Belleville who chummed with John.(Huy Belgium) -
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Postcard sent to his wife Lib, from a fellow solider John Shea of Belleville who chummed with John. (Huy, Belgium) -
Medals
John's medals -
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Private John Kennedy
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Private John Kennedy
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Private John Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Private John Kennedy
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Private John Kennedy
Digital gallery of
Private John Kennedy
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Private John Kennedy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 536 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HUY (LA SARTE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY Belgium
HUY (in Flemish, Hoei,) is a town in the Province of Liege, on the river Meuse, between Namur and Liege. The HUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY of La Sarte serves the hamlet of that name. It stands high up the hill on the South side of the town, commanding wide views of the Meuse valley. It contains German, French and Russian War Graves; and in the North corner is a plot, of 329 square yards, in which are buried 55 Canadian soldiers and 54 soldiers and airmen (including two unidentified) from the United Kingdom.
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