Percy KENNEDY WW1 1918 Kilkenny

[CaroleW]

There is very scant information on his service records. It seems likely that he was born in Roscommon but was gone from there by the time of the 1911 census. I am told that his name appears on the war memorial ay Kilkenny's McDonagh Station.

Percy Kennedy b 1888 - Service record on Ancestry.  Service number 101878.  He was a mental nurse at the soldiers home in Dublin.  Single - attested 28.9.1915 Belfast aged 27yrs 60 days
No next of kin shown.  Diagnosed with TB - discharged Dec 1915 - no service

Why would he be commemorated at Berkshire?

[gaffy]

There is another earlier attestation record for a Percy Kennedy which I think might refer to the same man, RAMC, signed up in 1911 at Naas, reg. no. 5971, it states his next of kin as his father and mother James and Maria of unknown address and that he was born in the parish of Kilkenny (near the town of Kilkenny in Co. Kilkenny).

Added: Another document for 5971 Percy Kennedy says that he died from Pthisis on 16.3.18, so it looks like the same man.

[CaroleW]

MRI for Percy Kennedy 5971 shows him discharged unfit 22.2.1915.  Also shows Theatre of War date 17.8.1914

[gaffy]

... I am told that his name appears on the war memorial ay Kilkenny's McDonagh Station.

You can see for yourself here in the bottom left photo, he's listed under RAMC reg. no. 5971:
 
http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=1143

[trevalyn]

Very grateful to all of you. I'm absorbing all these bits of information and will respond later.

[Sinann]

The Percy Kennedy with father Michael in Roscommon looks to be this Percy
Irish Guards 3982
http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/reels/sw/1918_22/KennedyP_E203521.pdf

[trevalyn]

It does indeed look as if Roscommon is a red herring. The limited information as seen so far points increasingly to Kilkenny. However, i have been unable to find a birth registration for him nor does he appear in either the 1901 or 1911 census. Still looking!

[Sinann]

No family details but in pieces about Kilkenny men in WWI, 2012 and 2022 in the Kilkenny People, says Percy Kennedy of the RAMC 9571 was the first Kilkenny man to disembark in France on 10 Aug 1914.

[trevalyn]

Just discovered that his service records include an address at Aubrey Street, Everton, Liverpool - later replaced by Soldiers' Home, Parkgate Street, Dublin. In light of lack of birth/census records in Ireland he may well have been born and spent his early years across the water.