Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.C. group of three to Captain K. H. H. Kennedy, Reserve of Officers, Indian Army

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine and better (5) £600-700

M.C. London Gazette 25 August 1917 (Mesopotamia). ‘Lt., R. of O., Ind. A.’

Kenneth Hartley Heathcote Kennedy was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd (Bombay) Battalion Great Indian Peninsula Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps on 26 May 1905. Promoted to Lieutenant on 1 April 1909 and to Captain on 1 May 1913, he joined the Assam-Bengal Volunteer Rifles in December 1914. He transferred to an active service placement in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers with the regular rank of 2nd Lieutenant on 15 July 1915; the Volunteer Corps unit retained him on its supernumary lists as a Captain in the 42nd Assam-Bengal Railway Battalion on into 1917. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 April 1917 and to Captain on 15 July 1918, being then attached to the 1st/90th Punjabis. Kennedy served in Mesopotamia from 1 April 1916 to 24 September 1917, was wounded and was awarded the M.C. for bravery as an officer with the I.A.R.O. Sold with copied research and with 90th Punjabis cap badge and gilt button.