Captain Edward Hamerton Kennefick

Regiment: Essex Regiment
Panel reference: Pier and Face 10 D.
Date published: 29/09/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 07/07/1916
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Captain Edward Hamerton Kennefick, Essex Regiment, who was killed in action on 7th July, was the son of the late Dr. Kennefick, M.D., and Mrs. Kennefick, Auburn, Clonmel, and grandson of the late General Hamerton, C.B. His death in action with the Essex Regiment furnishes a remarkable martial record amid all the tragedy of the war. General Hamerton spent all his military life with the Essex—the old 44th— Regiment. He served with it through the Peninsula, and commanded it at Waterloo, and his only surviving daughter, Mrs. Kennefick, has the battle-stained colours under which the 44th fought on that historic day.