Gerald Moore Kennedy
Person details
Forename(s) | Gerald Moore |
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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 |