We talk to Rob Kenna, the eldest son of the late, Edward Kenna VC. Rob talks openly and honestly about the remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve0Qndo10EThe sculpture commemorates local World War Two veteran and Victoria Cross recipient Edward 'Ted' Kenna, who died in 2009. Ted Kenna was awarded a Victoria Cross for "magnificent" bravery on a mountain side near Wewak in Papua New Guinea on the 15th May 1945 when he defied heavy fire to take possession of a Japanese machinegun post.
https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/military/display/99638-edward-%22ted%22-kennaPaul Kenna VC DSO - Omdurman VC Part 2 5. Australia's First Winner of the Victoria Cross 6.Two Schoolfriends Win VC in Same Battle 7. VC Who Was Once a Convict 8. Sergeant David Finlay - The Silent VC ... 13. From Court Martial to Buckingham Palace - The Life and Hard Times of Richard Kelliher VC 14. Nand Singh VC - The Only WW2 VC to Die in a ...
http://www.victoriacrosssociety.com/pastjournals.htmThe nation's leaders, top military brass and his mates farewelled Mr Kenna at St Patrick's Cathedral with heartfelt eulogies and reverence. Much was made, as it should be, of Mr Kenna's deeds of ...
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/farewell-to-ted-kenna-vc/news-story/d67834e2400536561a69a887ee13a243A. Robert Bellew Adams VC KCB 26 Jul 1856 Rawalpindi, Punjab, India - 13 Feb 1928; Peter J. (adopted name Badcock) Badcoe VC 1930s - 1960s; Augustus Willington Shelton Agar VC, DSO RN 4 Jan 1890 Kandy, Ceylon - 30 Dec 1968; Frederick Robertson Aikman V.C. 6 Feb 1828 Marylebone, Middlesex, England - 5 Oct 1888 Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken VC before 8 Feb 1828 Cupar, Fife, Scotland - 18 Sep 1887
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Victoria_CrossThe goal of this project is to List the Victoria Cross recipients within Australia, and possibly New Zealand, by State, so we may encourage their families, and cousins to build their biographies and genealogies. Right now this project has just two members: John Andrewartha, Captain, leader and co-ordinator ; Ken Evans, Gunner; gunna create profiles and/or build biographies
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Victoria_Cross_Recipients_-_Australia"More milk." — Michael Jackson, American musician (25 June 2009), asking his doctor for more propofol shortly before he died from an overdose of the same drug "Say goodnight to your mother if she's still awake." — Edward Kenna VC, last living Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross (8 July 2009), to his daughter before dying in the same nursing home where his wife lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_words_(21st_century)Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was a noted pottery businessman and a friend of Erasmus Darwin.During 1780, on the death of his long-time business partner Thomas Bentley, Josiah asked Darwin for help in managing the business.As a result of the close association that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, one of Josiah's daughters later married Erasmus's son Robert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%E2%80%93Wedgwood_familyThe phone number for Kenna VC is 13 22 13.
Kenna VC is located at 12 Hume Motorway, Pheasants Nest NSW 2574, Australia