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Lieutenant Colonel EDGAR JAMES KENNEDY

Service Number: 103585
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1945

Age 44 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

Spec. Mem. 8

Myanmar

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Force 136 Special Operations Executive
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of James Kennedy, and of Lily Kennedy, of Colchester, Essex; husband of Doris Isabel Kennedy, of Watford, Hertfordshire. A.M.I.E.E.
  • Personal Inscription FOR THEIR TOMORROW WE GAVE OUR TODAY
  • N.B. Please note that this casualty is also commemorated on the Singapore Memorial. However, recent research discovered that they were buried within the monastery grounds at Mewaing village, but as these graves cannot be maintained, the commission has now commemorated them by special memorial plaques in this cemetery.
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