John Patrick Kenneally

Operations

North Africa (Operation Torch)

On 12 November the 3rd Parachute Battalion (3 Para Bn) jumped onto and seized the vital airfield at Bone between Algiers and Tunis, arriving barely before German paratroopers deployed for the same mission.

Event

Palestine

Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme dissident Zionist groups such as IZL (Irgun Zwai Leumi) and the Stern Gang, all seeking to promote their aims through violence.

Decorations

VC

1943

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Anthony Costello said:

CSM.J.P.Kenneally VC. dob 15.03.1921. Died 27.09.2000.Buried at St.Michaels & All Angels, Rochford, Worcs.Won his VC at Bou Djarada, Tunisia.28.04.1943.(London Gazette 12.08.1943)VC is held at RHQ.Irish Guards, Wellington Bks.
I had the honour and pleasure of meeting him in the summer of 1947 at Aldershot. He was "a bit of a lad" as the saying goes. AEV.Costello (ParaData Subscriber)

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