The story
Name: F J KENNEDY
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Official number: JX 157970
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1940-05-29
Aircraft: -
Place of death: Chandlers Ford
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: MATLOCK (ST. GILES) CHURCHYARD - Derbyshire
Commemoration details: Plot 3, Row 2, Grave 8
Family details: Son of Thomas Joseph and Catherine Kennedy, of Shardlow, Matlock, Derbyshire
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Official number: JX 157970
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1940-05-29
Aircraft: -
Place of death: Chandlers Ford
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: MATLOCK (ST. GILES) CHURCHYARD - Derbyshire
Commemoration details: Plot 3, Row 2, Grave 8
Family details: Son of Thomas Joseph and Catherine Kennedy, of Shardlow, Matlock, Derbyshire
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