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VC794   Thomas James Bede Kenny

Name   Thomas James Bede Kenny   No.   4195   

VC Issue No.   794   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Regiment, 2nd (New South Wales) Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Place Of Death   Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Buried/Location Ashes   Botany Bay Cemetery (Eastern Suburbs Cemetery), Matraville, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   RC Section 3, Grave 441

Gazetted   8 June 1917

VC Presented   21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Family Grave,  Botany Bay Cemetery (Eastern Suburbs Cemetery), Matraville, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Display, Hall Of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

By The Way…

Contracting Trench Foot he suffered from this condition for the rest of his life

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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BORN   29 September 1896

DIED   15 April 1953   AGE   56

VC Won   9 April 1917   AGE   20

Place VC Won   Hermies, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

Thank you to Anthony Staunton