Private Henry Kennedy

Private Henry Baillie Hamilton Kennedy, 1st Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in 30th General Hospital, Calais of bronchial pneumonia on 1st May 1918 aged 36. He was the son of Jane and the late Peter Kennedy of Lennel and is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery  Sangatte, France  He had previously been a Regular Soldier for seven years in the Cameron Highlanders and served with them during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.. He was employed as a labourer when he re-enlisted in August 1914 and joined the 2nd Battalion, K.O.S.B. in France in November 1915. He was wounded in May 1916. Before the war he was an integral part of the Coldstream Football  team and is commemorated in the Football pavilion in Home Park, Coldstream. He had been discharged from the Army in February 1917 as no longer fit for active service due to acute asthma but somehow he had managed to re-enlist to serve his Regiment and Country. His military headstone is inscribed ” Safe in the Arms of Jesus”.

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