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  Remembering World War II
  Yarmouth Connections
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
  Name:
  
  
  
  Harold Archibald Kenney
  Rank: 
  
  
  
  Corporal 
  Service No: 
  
  
  G/24242 
  Regiment/Service: 
  
  Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. 
   
  Date of Birth:
  
  
  September 7, 1922
  Place of Birth:
  
  
  Lower Argyle, Yarmouth Co., NS
  Date of Enlistment:
  
  November 16, 1942
  Place of Enlistment:
  
  St. John, New Brunswick
  Address at Enlistment:
  
  87 Adelaide St., St John NB
  Age at Enlistment:
  
  20
  Height: 5 feet, 7 ½ inches  
  Weight: 151 lbs.
  Complexion: Fair
  Eyes: Blue
   
  Hair: Brown 
  Marital Status:
  
  
  Single (at enlistment)
  Trade:
  
  
  
  Shipping Clerk
  Religion:
  
  
  
  Baptist
  Next of Kin:
  
  
  Harold Archibald (Father)
  Date of Death: 
  
  
  April 13, 1945 
  Age at Death: 
  
  
  23  
  Cemetery: 
  
  
  
  Holten Canadian Cemetery (Overijssel, Netherlands)
  Grave Reference: 
  
  X. E. 16. 
  The 65th name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial
  Commemorated on page 530 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
  Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 8
  Harold Archibald Kenney was the Son of Harold Archibald and Eva Lillian Kenney (123 Elm St., Quincy, Mass. US ) and 
  husband of Vera Beurle Kenney, of Saint John, New Brunswick. He and Vera were married in St. John, New Brunswick on January 
  22, 1943.
  He served with the 2nd Battalion, St. John Fusiliers from July 1939 to August 1940. 
  He disembarked in the United Kingdom on July 28, 1943 and served there until October 
  6, 1944.  He served in France and Belgium.  He died as a result of wounds received in 
  action against the enemy on April 13, 1945.
   
  William Howard Grant (on the Yarmouth War Memorial) also with the Royal 
  Hamilton Light Infantry died April 13, 1945 and is also buried at Holten Canadian War 
  Cemetery 
  
 
  Harold Archibald Kenney
 
 
 
  
 
  
 