Remembering Dorset Brethren who fell in WW1 - Lieutenant Arthur Lewis Kennaway a member of The Lodge of Benevolence No. 1168. He served in the Cavalry of the 1st Dorset Yeomanry (Queens Own). He was taken on 21 August 1915 in action at Gallipoli. The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further troops were put ashore at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. Lieutenant Kennaways name is recorded on the Masonic memorial screen at Sherborne Abbey. Well be posting more on our website throughout the year - keep visiting our pages dorset-freemasonry.org.uk/index.html
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:00:02 +0000
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