102 Squadron
Killed in action 3 January 1941
Aged 23
Son of James and Jessie Kennedy, of Peterculter, Aberdeenshire.
Sergeant Kennedy is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
In January 1941, 102 Squadron was equipped with the Whitley bomber and was based at Topcliffe airfield in Yorkshire.
Sergeant Kennedy may have been a member of the crew of F/O Desmond Coutts (41667), pilot of Whitley T4227 of 102 Squadron, which was shot down by Fw Hans Hahn on 3 January 1941, possibly during a raid on Bremen.
Second Pilot of the aircraft was Sergeant Kenneth H Smith RAFVR (745765), of Keighley, Yorkshire.
F/O Coutts had been P/O Leonard Cheshire's second pilot on 12/13 November 1940 on a raid to Cologne. That aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and badly damaged near the target and the wireless operator, Sergeant Henry Davidson, was severely wounded.
Cheshire and Davidson were awarded the DSO and DFM respectively for their actions in getting their aircraft back to the UK.
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