Frederick Kennedy

Frederick KENNEDY

Regimental number 77

Religion Presbyterian

Occupation Carpenter

Address 19 Brooks Street, Hawthorn, Victoria

Marital status Single

Age at embarkation 21

Next of kin Mrs E J Kennedy, 19 Brooks Street, Hawthorn, Victoria

Enlistment date 18 August 1914

Rank on enlistment Sapper

Unit name 2nd Field Company Engineers

AWM Embarkation Roll number 14/21/1

Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A3 Orvieto on 21 October 1914

Rank from Nominal Roll Sapper

Unit from Nominal Roll 2nd Field Company Engineers

Fate Died of wounds 25 May 1915

Place of burial At Sea

Commemoration details The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 12), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,

 Australian War Memorial	24

Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

DIED FROM WOUNDS ON THE HMHS SOUDAN. His body was probably buried at sea.

HMHS Soudan was a hospital ship and as such was one of the vessels used for the reception, treatment and movement of casualties during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-1916.