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Gerald Moore Kennedy

 Gerald Moore Kennedy

Person details

Forename(s) Gerald Moore
Surname Kennedy
Rank Pilot Officer
Regiment RAFVR
Age 23
Death Missing, presumed killed in action
Place of Death Western Europe > Netherlands
Date of Death 03/07/1941
Year of Entry 1931
House Letter B
School Notes Junior Scholar
Comments War record of 78 Squadron http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandno78squadron.cfm
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/78_wwII.html
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit 78 Squadron
Prefect -
Military Decorations
Album Number 22
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery Netherlands > Jonkerbos
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Corpus Christi College, Cambridge - 1st Cl. Natural Sciences Tripos
Prep School Beaudesert
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary November 23 1941. Missing. believed killed in action, July, 1941, Gerald Moore Kennedy, Pilot Off., R.A.F.V.R. He was at Radley (Nugee's, B) from 1931 to 1935. Gerald Kennedy's record is one that held out many hopes for the future. Although he was disappointed of a scholarship at Cambridge. his success at Corpus clearly shows that he deserved one. He was placed in the 1s class of the Nat. Sci. Tripos, Part I, and in Div. 1 of the 2nd class in Part II. Shy and retiring by nature, he was not the kind of boy who comes much into the public eye at school, but those who knew him could not fail to be struck by his perseverance, his simplicity and his uprightness. One can imagine that he did not much care for the rough and tumble of barrack life, but at the same time one knows that his strong sense of duty was his motive power. 'Sed non miles, sed pro patria.' Perhaps his mother will allow us to express our admiration for his qualities like this and our sympathy for her in this further grievous blow she has been called upon to bear.
Service Number 66527
Place of Birth