Service Details
Name:
 KENNY
Given Name:
 CARSON WILFRID
Initials:
 C W
Service No:
 232529
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Armoured Corps
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Unit:
 3rd King's Own Hussars
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Date of Death:
 1942-11-02
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Age:
 29
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, when his General Grant Tank was knocked out by enemy anti-tank fire in the Sidi el Rahman area. His remains, together with the remains of the other four crew members were recovered by the British Graves Concentration Unit after they were found still inside the partially burnt-out tank when it was brought into the British Tank Recovery Unit yard at Sidi el Rahman.
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas Richard Davis Kenny and Gladys Edith Kenny, of George, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Shirley Nower Kenny, of Cape Town.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave XVII. D. 9-13.

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