Thom's Irish Who's Who/Kenny, Major-General William Wallace

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Thom's Irish Who's Who
Kenny, Major-General William Wallace
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KENNY, Major-General William Wallace, C.B. (1917). M.B. (T.C.D.), F.R.C.S.I. Educ. at Trinity College, Dublin; Major-Gen. Army Med. Ser. (retired): served in Afghan War, 1879-80; Sudan Campaign, 1885: S. African War, 1900, as Principal Medical Officer 10th Inf. Div.; European War, 1914-18 (1914-15 star, two medals); appointed an Hon. Surg. to H.M., 1910; was Principal Medical Officer, N. Command, 1910-16; is a Member of British Medical Association; a Fellow of Royal Institute of Public Health, and a Knight of Grace of Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England; was Supt. Med. Officer, Jamaica (also M.L.C.), 1903-4; Principal Med. Officer, S. Africa, 1908-10, and N. Command, 1910-16; son of the late Randal Young Kenny, M.D., of Killeshandra. Co. Cavan; b. 1854; m. 1892, Catherine Jane (d. 1920), dau. of Edward Blakeway Steedman, of High Ercall Hall, Wellington, Salop. Res.: Danebury, Acomb, York; Junior United Service Club, London.