KENNEDY, Felix Herbert
| Service Number: | W46526 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3 Base Ordnance Depot |
| Born: | Broome, Western Australia, 21 September 1918 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Cannington, Perth, Western Australia, 17 June 1989, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-312033-P3M7V6 KC00096011 KARRAKATTA CEMETERY Cremation |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W46526, 3 Base Ordnance Depot | |
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| 11 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W46526, 3 Base Ordnance Depot |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Felix Herbert Kennedy (Service No:W46526) served in the ACMF with 12 Ordnance Stores Coy from 4 December 1941 to 11 December 1945. Private Kennedy was attached to 3 Australian Base Ordnance Depot at Discharge.
Felix was born in 1918 in Bromme WA, 6th of seven children of Herbert (Bert) Thomas Kennedy (b1883 in Melbourne, Victoria) and isobel (Nita) Margaret Millar (b1887 in Fremantle, WA). Bert (a Shipping Clerk) and Nita married in 1911 in Broome, WA where they settled and raised their family and Bert worked as a Pearler, Shipping Agent and Shipping Clerk. Nita died in 1926.
Felix worked as a Clerk in Perth, WA and in 1943 married Gladys Lillian Daphne Haselby (b1915 in Northam, WA). Felix and Gladys settled in Perth WA where Felix worked as a Storeman and in the 1960s'/1970s, as a Public Servant with the Department of Health. Felix died in 1989 and Gladys in 2003.
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