Family :

Education & Career :

Educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

The Gallipoli Campaign was fought on the Gallipoli peninsula 25th April 1915 to 9th January 1916. in a failed attempt to defeat Turkey by seizing the Dardanelles and capturing Istanbul. Ill-conceived and planned, the initial effort by the Royal Navy failed to force passage through the Dardanelles by sea power alone. It was then realised that a land force was needed to support the project by suppressing the Turkish mobile artillery batteries. By the time all was ready the Turks were well aware and well prepared. Despite amazing heroics on the day of the landings only minor beachheads were achieved and over the succeeding 8 months little progress was made. Eventually the beachheads were evacuated in a series of successful ruses.

Despite Gallipoli rightly becoming a national source of pride to Australians and New Zealanders, far more British casualties were sustained, and these days the substantial French contribution is almost forgotten.

Detail :

He was reported missing in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph on 11th September 1915 and also in the Western Gazette of 28th January 1916.

His legend is enriched by the story committed to the Diss Express on 24th January 1919.

"LIEUT. ARTHUR KENNAWAY. Lieutenant Arthur Lewis Kennaway, 1st Own Dorset Yeomanry, who was reported missing on September 6th, 1915, is now presumed to have fallen in the attack on the Turkish position near Suvla Bay on August 21st, 1915. Born in 1881, he was second son of the Rev. C.L. and Mrs. Kennaway, of Stephen's Plot, Spetisbury, Blandford, and formerly rector of Gardoldisham. He went from a private school to Eton, and from there to Oriel Collage, Oxford. After a course at Wells Theological College, with a view to taking Holy Orders, he came to the conclusion that he was not called to the clerical profession, and turned his attention to land agency, eventually becoming a partner in the firm, as it was then called, of Eden Baines, and Kennaway, of Sherborne, Dorset. At the outbreak of war he was holding a commission in the 1st Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, and went out with the regiment to Egypt in April, 1915. In August the Yeomanry were ordered to Gallipoli, acting as unmounted troopers, and int he attack on the Turkish trenches near Chocolate Hill and the heights beyond, near Suvla Bay, on August 21st, when the Dorset Yeomanry suffered heavy losses, it is believed that he was killed. One who knew him well writes:-"Lieut. Kennaway was known to many friends as one of those who combined strength of character with a great charm of personalty and a keenness in whatever work he took in hand." Like his father he was well known on Norfolk cricket grounds. He made his debut for the County in the Suffolk match at Lakenham in July, 1904, a match memorable for a fine century innings by the Rev. G.B. Raikes, and the splendid bowling fo Smith and Gibson.".

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley