Name: Kenneth Angus Donnelly Rank: Craftsman Service Number: F/5042 Service: Attached to Headquarters, 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Date of Birth: April 10, 1918 Place of Birth: Digby, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: November 21, 1941 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Digby, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 23 Height: 5 feet, 5½ inches Complexion: Medium Hair Colour: Fair Eye Colour: Blue Occupation: Longshoreman Marital Status: Married Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Ida Glendeane Donnelly (Wife) Date of Death: July 11, 1944 Age: 26 Cemetery: Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Calvados, France Grave: Section XIX, Row H, Grave 2 Commemorated on Page 293 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on June 23 Kenneth Angus Donnelly was the son of Son of George Angus Donnelly (1891-1976) and Sarah Amelia (Marshall) Donnelly (1897-1964), of Digby, Nova Scotia, and the brother of Willard Reed Donnelly (1919-1938), George A Donnelly, and Marguerite (Donnelly) Comeau (1923). He was the husband of Ida Glendeane (Feener) Donnelly (1923-2005), of Clementsport, Annapolis Co., NS. Kenneth and Ida married Sept 26, 1940, and he had an adopted daughter, Delores B. Donnelly Briggs (1940-2019), born Feb 28, 1940. After enlisting in the Militia (Non-Permanent Active Militia) in October of 1941 and being attached to No. 60 Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre (CIBTC), also known as Camp 60, he enlisted for active service in WWII in November of 1941. He completed basic training at Camp 60 from November 21, 1941, until January 7, 1942. Kenneth departed Canada on July 20, 1943, and disembarked in the United Kingdom on July 28th. Serving as the rank of Craftsman with the RCEME, he qualified as a Fitter for motor vehicles (MV), Class B. Class B indicated that he knew the names of and was able to use the tools and equipment of his trade and know how to care for same, in addition have passed Fitter Group C trade test, was able to make rough dimensioned sketches and read simple drawings, was able to dismantle, repair, assemble and adjust all vehicle components except voltage regulator and carburettor, and had a good working knowledge of the functions of the various assemblies and components of motor vehicles. Kenneth embarked in England on July 3, 1944, and arrived in France on July 5th. He was killed in action just six days later, on the evening of July 11th, when the vehicle (cwt car) he was in was struck directly and burned. Rifleman Kenneth Angus Donnelly is in interred at Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave