KENNEDY, George Walter

Pozieres British Cemetery, FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
9th Battalion
Australian Infantry

George was born 1890 in Newport to Charles & Mary (nee CHAPMAN) KENNEDY who were living at 2 Rose Cottage, Cross Lane in Newport around the time of George’s death.

George, aged 26, was Killed in Action on the 23rd of July 1916 & originally buried close to where he fell. His body was later exhumed by the Canadian Graves Detachment & reburied in the Pozieres British Cemetery in France around the 18th of June 1919. George rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 2,759 of his First World War comrades including 1,382 of whom remain unidentified.

George is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother Bertram James also fell.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.