Lieutenant-Colonel Bert Kennedy
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

One morning a strange Italian forced his way past the indignant guards at B.H.Q. and presented himself to the astounded adjutant. Filthy, thin as a refugee, and clade in disintegrating civilian clothes, Major Bert Kennedy had returned to the unit out of the limbo of the missing. Kennedy had a tale to tell.

(Farley Mowat, The Regiment, 196)

Born on 25 July 1905 in Owen Sound, Ontario on Albert Arnett Kennedy was a manufacturer and commanding officer of the Grey and Simcoe Foresters. He reverted in rank to go on active service in September 1939. Following instructional duties in Toronto, he went overseas as an instructor with a holding unit before transferring to the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

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