BORN HULL 1894. SON OF GEORGE & MARY JANE KENNINGTON ABOVE ADDRESS. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A MERCHANT’S CLERK. ENLISTED HULL. DIED OF SHRAPNEL, HEAD WOUNDS, AT MANCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL, ON 18/07/1915, AGED 21. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS FATHER ALSO DIED IN 1915. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER. HIS FUNERAL WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 24/07/1915. *
HIS OLDER BROTHER PTE, TOM KENNINGTON, EYR, DIED ON 04/09/1918, AGED 31. THEY ARE BOTH LISTED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS BROTHERS HERBERT, GEORGE & MATHEW ALSO SERVED AT THE SAME ADDRESS.
First name:
JOHN ROBERT
Military Number:
1074
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
18/07/1915
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
21
