Captain Kennedy Memorial

Monument in memory of Captain Paul Adrian Kennedy, killed in action leading his company during the offensive of the Battle of Aubers, May 9, 1915. 12,000 soldiers fell that day alone.
This monument was erected by the mother of the captain who lost 3 of her sons during the war. With the help of her 4th son, also a soldier but a survivor of the war, she searched for the graves of her 3 children. They found these for 2 of them (identified in cemeteries in Villers-Bretonneux and Cateau-Cambrésis), but they found no grave for Paul. She then had this memorial erected in a ceremony in 1921, and visited it regularly until her death in 1939. The 4th son took over the maintenance and preservation of the memorial since her death in 1965, and it is now maintained by the municipality of Fromelles.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman