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VC429 Paul Aloysius Kenna
BORN 16 August 1862
DIED 30 August 1915 AGE 53
VC Won 2 September 1898 AGE 36
Place VC Won Khartoum
War/Campaign Sudanese War
Name Paul Aloysius Kenna No.
VC Issue No. 429 Awards VC DSO
Regiment 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
Later Queens Royal Lancers
Now The Royal Lancers
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Brigadier - General
Place Of Birth Oakfield House, 22 Richmond Terrace, Everton, Liverpool, England
Place Of Death Field Ambulance Station near Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, Turkey
Buried/Location Ashes Lala Baba Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot II, Row A, Grave 1
Gazetted 15 November 1898
VC Presented 6 January 1899 by Queen Victoria at Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Memorials
Headstone, Lala Baba Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Plaque at Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Name on Victoria Cross Memorial, Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool
P Name on Victora Cross Memorial, Abercromby Square, Liverpool
P Name on memorial, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on war memorial, North Kilworth, Leicestershire
P Named on roll of honour, St Andrews Church, North Kilworth, Leicestershire
Memorial, main hall, St Francis Xavier College, Beaconsfield Road, Liverpool
By The Way…
Member of the British Olympic Equestrian Team in the 1912 Stokholm Olympics
VC Held By
Queen's Royal Lancers Regiment Museum, Thoresby Courtyard, Thoresby Park, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire
