MA YAPPY... You have a Dinner guest coming ....

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir
... you owe me big time for the turkey soup spat all over my computer and keyboard

... I felt bad about the mess I caused, so I rang up a friend and explained that a feeble friend of mine needed some company.....

... so give him a bit and he should be there soon, he's just checking his dinner attire......

Source: LAC -
Caption: Captain Peter K. Kennedy, a company commander of The Highland Light Infantry of Canada, dressing for Sunday dinner, Thaon, France, 6 August 1944

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

I recognized that tartan right away without reading the caption! It's my mother's family's (Margaret MacKenzie Clow). I really should bite the bullet and have one made, perhaps in time for the next CC event. Don't think there's time before Australia, but we'll see.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Whoa... just thought of something... Mr. Fitton, you still wear the MacKenzie kilt, I believe... do you have a local source? Please advise soonest.

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
... I felt bad about the mess I caused, so I rang up a friend and explained that a feeble friend of mine needed some company.....

... so give him a bit and he should be there soon, he's just checking his dinner attire......

Source: LAC -
Caption: Captain Peter K. Kennedy, a company commander of The Highland Light Infantry of Canada, dressing for Sunday dinner, Thaon, France, 6 August 1944

Captain Kennedy is quite dashingly attired ... splendidly kilted!

(great photos you're finding Mark!)

Karmen

Got my own dress all picked out for my Higland Laddie visitor ...

Is he come to woo me then Master Marko?

The Highland Lassie
By Robert Burns

Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair,
Shall ever be my muse's care:
Their titles a' are empty show;
Gie me my Highland Lassie, O.

Within the glen sae bushy, O,
Aboon the plains sae rushy, O,
I set me down wi' right good will.
To sing my Highland Lassie, O.

Oh, were yon hills and valleys mine
Yon palace and yon gardens fine!
The world then the love should know
I bear my Highland Lassie, O.

But fickle fortune frowns on me,
And I maun cross the raging sea!
But while my crimson currents flow,
I'll love my Highland Lassie, O.

Altho' through foreign climes I range,
I know her heart will never change,
For her bosom burns with honour's glow,
My faithful Highland Lassie, O.

For her I'll dare the billow's roar,
For her I'll trace the distant shore,
That Indian wealth may lustre throw
Around my Highland Lassie, O.

She has my heart, she has my hand,
By sacred truth and honour's band!
'Till the mortal stroke shall lay me low,
I'm thine, my Highland Lassie, O!

Farewell the glen sae bushy, O!
Farewell the plain sae rushy, O!
To other lands I now must go,
To sing my Highland Lassie, O!


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[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
... I felt bad about the mess I caused, so I rang up a friend and explained that a feeble friend of mine needed some company.....

... so give him a bit and he should be there soon, he's just checking his dinner attire......

Source: LAC -
Caption: Captain Peter K. Kennedy, a company commander of The Highland Light Infantry of Canada, dressing for Sunday dinner, Thaon, France, 6 August 1944

...a propos absolutely nothing at all, that field phone certainly looks to be German in origin.

[charlie fitton]

Peter and his brother, both from Kitchener, were killed in action within a few days of each other near the end of the war. By then they were both Coy Comdrs.
They are spoken of with great fondness by the vets, and are mentioned by name in Copp's new book "Cinderella army"

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by charlie fitton
Peter and his brother, both from Kitchener, were killed in action within a few days of each other

Hi Charlie;

I had no idea when I posted the photo that Major Kennedy had been killed in action, I should have checked first.

For Karmen:

As Charlie said, both brothers were killed within days of each other -

Major Peter Kingston Kennedy - September 17, 1944 (pictured above)
CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY (Leubringhen)
Pas de Calais,France
Grave Reference: 5. E. 1.

Major Douglas Philips Kennedy - September 19, 1944
CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY (Leubringhen)
Pas de Calais,France
Grave Reference: 5. E. 2.

both of whom are Commemorated on Page 351 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance, located here

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
For Karmen:

As Charlie said, both brothers were killed within days of each other -

Major Peter Kingston Kennedy - September 17, 1944 (pictured above)
CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY (Leubringhen)
Pas de Calais,France
Grave Reference: 5. E. 1.

Major Douglas Philips Kennedy - September 19, 1944
CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY (Leubringhen)
Pas de Calais,France
Grave Reference: 5. E. 2.

Thank you for posting the information about these men, Mark. I ALWAYS wonder about the men in any photos. I wonder who they are and where they are from. I wonder about who and what they were like, their lives and families "back home" ...

The date September 17th, 1944 really jumped out at me, as it always does now whenever I see that date, since starting my own research. ("Sept 17th" (1922) was my Uncle Ed's birthday, and also my grandfathers' death date in 1944)

Charlie, thank you for letting us know this.



Karmen