BORN HULL 1894. SON OF RICHARD & M KENNEBY ABOVE 1901 CENSUS. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. KIA.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ERNEST KENNEBY 11/627. Born in April 1894, Ernest was one of three children to Richard and Margaret Kenneby of 3 Lorento Place, Porter Street, Hull. He is the last of those killed in action on 8th September 1918 when the left hand flank of their line was turned during a counter attack and ‘D’ Company of the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 2nd Hull Pals, bore the brunt of a full-scale massacre. More poignant for him being one of the Originals, a man who had fought his way through Egypt, the Somme, Oppy Wood and had faced down and turned the German Spring Offensive into a retreat. To die to close to the end seems all the more cruel, but of course he never knew that; to Ernest another battle had to be fought, then another and another. It was a life he will have become all too used to. Ernest Kenneby is buried in Trois Arbres Cemetery; he was 24 years old.
Kenneby, Ernest
First name:
ERNEST
Military Number:
627
Rank:
Private
Date Died
08/09/1918
Place died:
Steenwerck Cemetery, Nord, France
Age:
24
3 FLORENCE PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
