KENNAGH Andrew Charles Joseph

  • First Name(s):
    Andrew 
    Charles 
    Joseph 
  • Surname:
    KENNAGH
  • Service Number:
    164615
  • Rank:

    Captain

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Unit:
    Attached 16th Punjab Regiment
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    14th November 1943
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Imphal War Cemetery, India, Grave 9. G. 21.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Andrew and Sarah Kennagh, of Worcester

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

KENNAGH Andrew Charles Joseph Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester Royal Grammar School

Further Information About KENNAGH Andrew Charles Joseph

Appears on the Army casualties list for Worcestershire.

Andrew Kennagh attended Worcester Royal Grammar School from 1925 to 1932.  He was the younger son of Andrew and Sarah Kennagh of 9 Bath Road, Worcester and after leaving school he joined the Metal Box Company in Worcester, eventually moving with them to London.  When war broke out he enlisted in the army and went to France with the British Expeditionary Force.  After being evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 he returned to Sandhurst and in the Autumn of 1941 he joined the Indian Army.  According to his obituary in the Worcester Evening News he was killed in action in Burma, a requiem mass being held in St George’s R.C. Church in Worcester.

Source for additional information: In Dedication to a Future World By Mark Rogers, 1999.

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