In Memory Of
KENNY, CARSON WILFRID
Service Details
Age:
29
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
232529
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
3rd King's Own Hussars
Regiment:
Royal Armoured Corps
Date of Death:
1942-11-02
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Coll. grave XVII. D. 9-13.
Cemetery:
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Egypt
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.
