KENNEDY, Bertram James

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Petty Officer
HMS Attack
Royal Navy

Bertram was born on the 20th of April 1880 in Newport to Charles & Mary (nee CHAPMAN) KENNEDY who were living at 2 Rose Cottage, Cross Lane in Newport around the time of Bertram’s death.

Bertram, aged 37, was a Petty Officer aboard the I Class Destroyer HMS Attack, when on the 30th of December 1917 she was torpedoed & sunk by the German submarine UC34 off the coast of Egypt. The Attack was coming to the aid of the Troop Ship HMT Aragon, which UC34 had previously torpedoed. 10 of the 70 crew were lost, including Bertram who is Commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to The Missing with over 10,000 of his First World War shipmates.

Bertram is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother George Walter also fell & commemorated in France.

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.