Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookne in the back, and I feel sure that death was instantaneous and painless. We were enabled to recover his body, which was to-day buried simply by the chaplain in the presence of all the Coy. His grave lies by the roadside near a pretty country town and we are at present erecting a cross and railings to enclose it.... I need hardly tell you what a great loss your son's death is to me, both as a friend and an officer. He was invaluable to me in every way and the country has lost in him a most valuable officer"; and writing home from a Colchester Hospital, Lieut. Arthur Evans, Royal Engineers (of Carnarvon), paid a tribute to the bravery and kindness shown by Capt. Kelly, who commanded his coy., in attending to him when he was wounded, four days before Capt. Kelly himself was killed. The letter states: "It was a great blow to me to read of Kelly having been killed in action just after I had written him a letter thanking him for being so decent to me after I was hit. He came down to me some miles from Coy. headquarters to the trenches, which must have been under heavy fire, saw me into the dressing station, and did not leave me until just before I left in the ambulance wagon. The dressing station was under fire, and was struck by a shell just before I got away. He was a fine man, 6 ft. 6 in. in his socks, beautifully built, popular and known everywhere, and I was very proud of his friendship." Capt. Kelly won the Army and Navy Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1901. He carried out explorations in Abyssinia in 1907, 1911 and 1913. [Illustration: =Harry Holdsworth Kelly.=] =KELLY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3286), 302040, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KEMP, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 101861, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KEMP, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1818, C Coy. 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Sergt. Harry Kemp, of the same Battn., by his wife, Kate (Sunny Bank, Wadhurst, Sussex), dau. of James Patey; _b._ Moseham, Wadhurst, co. Sussex, 6 Oct. 1898; educ. Wadhurst Council School; joined the Sussex Territorials in March, 1914, and on the outbreak of war went with his Battn. to Dover and from thence to the Tower, where he volunteered for foreign service. He died in King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, 16 Jan. 1915, from pneumonia, contracted while trench digging at Whiligh. He had been a prominent member of the Wadhurst Boy Scouts, which he joined at its inception by Mr. E. Courthope. He was a patrol leader of the Rattlesnakes, and obtained a number of badges. He was also bugler of the troop. [Illustration: =Arthur Kemp.=] =KEMP, SYDNEY=, Ordinary Seaman, No. J. 17067, Ch., 2nd _s._ of George Kemp, of 66, Plough Road, Battersea, S.W., by his wife, Anna Maria; _b._ Hoxton, N., 8 April, 1896; educ. Clapton Road School; joined the Royal Navy about 15 April, 1912; and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy, together with the Aboukir and the Hogue, were sunk by torpedoe-fire off the Dutch coast, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ =KEMPSTER, JOHN DOUGLAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3714), B. 2226, 212890, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KEMPTON, HARRY LEONARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 3714), 305750, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KEMSLEY, WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 2331, Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.), 2/1st Home Counties F.A., _s._ of George Albert Kemsley, of 1, Railway Place, Lower Halling, near Rochester; _b._ Snodland, 20 June, 1896; educ. Halling Board School; joined the R.A.M.C. Aug. 1914, and died at Windsor, 10 Feb. 1915, of cerebral hæmorrhage, while training. Buried, Halling Cemetery; _unm._ [Illustration: =William C. H. Kemsley.=] =KENDALL, JESSE=, Cooper, 282542, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KENNARD, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 8557, 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., yr. and only surviving _s._ of the late Edmund Arthur Kennard, of Hartfield, Tunbridge Wells, Master at Ipswich Grammar School (who _d._ 13 April, 1891), by his wife, Annie M. (Cairo Cottage, Southwater, Horsham), dau. of the late George Greenfield; _b._ posthumous at Hartfield, co. Sussex, 21 July, 1891; educ. Southwater Council School; joined the 1st Hants. Regt. at Portsmouth, 1 Jan. 1910, going direct to Londonderry till the Autumn, and then to Aldershot, where he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. for foreign service in the autumn of 1911; served Wynberg, South Africa; Mauritius and Mhow, Central India; came home suffering with malarial fever and was unable to accompany his regt. to the Front in March, 1915, but went out to the Dardanelles with a draft the following July. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, in the great charge at Krithia, 6 Aug. 1915. On this occasion, out of the 900 who went into the action, only 250 returned. [Illustration: =Arthur Kennard.=] =KENNARD, STANLEY CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1981), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KENNEDY, ARTHUR ST. CLAIR=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of Francis George Holland Kennedy, of Tivoli, co. Limerick, by his wife, Mary St. Clair, dau. of the late William Doyle Hobson, of Myler's Park, co. Wexford; _b._ Shelbourne, co. Limerick, 12 Jan. 1892; educ. Aravon, Bray, co. Wicklow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.D.F. 10 June, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; was invalided home after the Battle of the Aisne, and subsequently sent on duty to Cork with the 3rd Battn. of his regt. There, while expecting to be again sent to the Front with a draft, he contracted pneumonia and died in the Royal Military Hospital, 6 March, 1915; _unm._ He was buried with full military honours on the 8th, in Cork Military Cemetery. [Illustration: =A. St. Clair Kennedy.=] =KENNEDY, JOHN HORACE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Somerset L.I., attd. 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), only _s._ of Capt. William Horace Kennedy, of Annfield, Brannockstown, co. Kildare, late 60th Rifles; by his wife, Ada Constance, dau. of Surgeon Major-Gen. John Warren; _b._ Oaklands, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, 19 Oct. 1890; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Connaught Rangers, 27 March, 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Oct. 1913; transferred as 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Somerset L.I., 10 June, 1914; left for France, and was killed in action in the trenches near Esterre when attd. to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Jan. 1915. Buried near Esterre; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Horace Kennedy.=] =KENNEDY, JOHN PITT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd _s._ of the late Charles Napier Kennedy; _b._ London, 12 Aug. 1884; educ. Marlborough (House "Littlefield") and Sandhurst: gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Cameronians, 10 Oct. 190 |