Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Carleton Gladstone Kennedy
In memory of:
Flying Officer Carleton Gladstone Kennedy
August 30, 1944
Military Service
J/36886
21
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
434 Sqdn.
Additional Information
Son of Robert James Kennedy and Robena Eva Kennedy, of Cumberland, Ontario. Brother of Robert, Irving, Laurie and Joyce.
Commemorated on Page 351 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HARROGATE (STONEFALL) CEMETERY
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Sec. E. Row C. Grave 14.
The town cemetery is on the south east side of Harrogate, Yorkshire. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's plot is in the southern part of the cemetery. To reach the cemetery from Harrogate, go along the Harrogate/Wetherby road (A661) to the junction with the A59. The cemetery is signposted at this junction. This cemetery contains war graves of both world wars. The large majority of the war burials occurred during the 1939-45 War. Nearly all are airmen, two-thirds of them belonging to the Canadian forces. Many of these men died in the Military Wing of Harrogate General Hospital. Of the many airfields established in Yorkshire during the War, a number were situated in the vicinity of Harrogate. Such were the R.A.F. station at Harrogate itself, and those at Linton-on-Ouse, Tockwith, Rufforth and Marston Moor. Nearly all the Canadians buried here belonged to No. 6 (R.C.A.F.) Bomber Group, whose headquarters were at Allerton Park. All the stations controlled by this Group were in the area north of Harrogate in the Vale of York, the largest base having its headquarters at Linton-on-Ouse. During the early months of the war a piece of land was set aside by the local authorities for service war burials near the north-west corner of the cemetery. This group of war graves is in Sections 20E and 21E within the northern boundary. In July 1943 the Air Forces Section was opened at the north-eastern corner of the cemetery, where men from airfields in Yorkshire and the north-eastern counties were brought, most of whom died in the great bomber offensive on targets in Germany.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Memorial – Carleton Kennedy, banner, Carleton Place, Nov 2018 -
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Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Flying Officer Carleton Gladstone Kennedy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Flying Officer Carleton Gladstone Kennedy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Id card – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of CARLETON GLADSTONE KENNEDY – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper Clipping – Source: Globe and Mail, September 18, 1944 -
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Monument – Public Memorial, Cumberland Ontario -
![Photo of Carleton G. Kennedy– Flying Officer Carleton G. Kennedy,(2) was killed on his first mission in a Halifax bomber August 30, 1944. His name is engraved on the Public Memorial in his home village of Cumberland, Ontario and he is never far in our memory.
Carleton's father, Robert J. Kennedy,(1) served with the Canadian Artillery in the Great War and fought in all the significant operations of the Canadian Expeditionary Force until he was seriously wounded and rotated home. He was an eye-witness to every major Canadian operation through Vimy Ridge. All three of Robert Kennedy's eligible sons served in the RCAF during the Second World War. (A fourth son was only 16 when the war ended.) Sadly, one (Carleton) would not survive the war.
Irving Farmer [Hap] Kennedy (3) was born in Cumberland, Ontario, just 15 miles from the Peace Tower in Ottawa, in 1922. In 1940 he joined the RCAF, became a Spitfire ace with more than a dozen enemy aircraft shot down, and in 1944 commanded a Spitfire squadron in Normandy.
Robert A. Kennedy,(4) Trained in Prince Edward Island before being sent to England in late 1944 where he was attached, ironically, to the 6 Bomber Group (where his younger brother had been killed in August of the same year.) He worked in wireless communications with Halifax and Lancaster bombers. In 1945 he volunteered to transfer to the Pacific Theatre, but shortly thereafter the Atomic Bomb expedited the end of the war.
5. Joyce M. Kennedy, Joyce earlier served as a Flying Officer in the RCAF assigned to Europe, NORAD, & RCAF HQ.
Submmitted with the permission of Joyce Kennedy.
By Operation Picture Me](https://cvwm.images.cloud.veterans.gc.ca/2623786_4.jpg)
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Photo of Carleton G. Kennedy – Flying Officer Carleton G. Kennedy,(2) was killed on his first mission in a Halifax bomber August 30, 1944. His name is engraved on the Public Memorial in his home village of Cumberland, Ontario and he is never far in our memory. Carleton's father, Robert J. Kennedy,(1) served with the Canadian Artillery in the Great War and fought in all the significant operations of the Canadian Expeditionary Force until he was seriously wounded and rotated home. He was an eye-witness to every major Canadian operation through Vimy Ridge. All three of Robert Kennedy's eligible sons served in the RCAF during the Second World War. (A fourth son was only 16 when the war ended.) Sadly, one (Carleton) would not survive the war. Irving Farmer [Hap] Kennedy (3) was born in Cumberland, Ontario, just 15 miles from the Peace Tower in Ottawa, in 1922. In 1940 he joined the RCAF, became a Spitfire ace with more than a dozen enemy aircraft shot down, and in 1944 commanded a Spitfire squadron in Normandy. Robert A. Kennedy,(4) Trained in Prince Edward Island before being sent to England in late 1944 where he was attached, ironically, to the 6 Bomber Group (where his younger brother had been killed in August of the same year.) He worked in wireless communications with Halifax and Lancaster bombers. In 1945 he volunteered to transfer to the Pacific Theatre, but shortly thereafter the Atomic Bomb expedited the end of the war. 5. Joyce M. Kennedy, Joyce earlier served as a Flying Officer in the RCAF assigned to Europe, NORAD, & RCAF HQ. Submmitted with the permission of Joyce Kennedy. By Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Donald Kennedy – Photo credit: The Memory Project www.thememoryproject.com Mr. Kennedy's brother, Flying Officer Carleton G. Kennedy flew with 434 Squadron, RCAF, Yorkshire, England. He was killed on August 30, 1944.
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