Private Ernest Kennedy

Army Number: 70139

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Canterbury, Kent. Son of Mary Ann Kennedy, of 9 Park Place Margate, Kent. He was a French Polisher prior to enlisting at Margate. He was killed action, 3rd August 1917, whilst serving in the line at St. Julien, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Ernest Kennedy is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Margate War Memorial, Margate, Kent.