Born at Waterford, Ireland, c.1828.
Enlisted at Dublin on the 11th of July 1848.
Age: 20.
Height: 5" 9".
Trade: None shown.
At Scutari from the 19th of September — 29th of December 1854.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of October 1855.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign. 1st of October 1857.
Promoted to Sergeant "for the period of the voyage out", on the 7th of July 1860.
Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of December 1860.
He was Provost-Sergeant during 1866-67.
Next of kin: Wife, Ann Kennedy, to whom he had sent money from the Crimea. He was shown as being on the Regimental "Married roll" from the 10th of October 1850. There were three children in the family at the time of his death.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
He was awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 30th of June 1868.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Died at Edinburgh on the 18th of February 1870.
The India Office records show a son, Robert, as being born to him and his wife, Ann, at Secunderbad on the 16th of July 1863. He was christened on the 2nd of September by the Revd. W. Pigot Jones, Chaplain.
A William Kennedy entered the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea on the 30th of September 1860 at the age of 6 years 11 months. He was shown as being the son of Sergeant Michael Kennedy of the 17th Lancers and his wife, Ann. Both parents were shown as "Living."
His son, William, joined the 17th Lancers at Hounslow on the 26th of October 1867. Said to be from the Royal Hospital School at Chelsea, he was shown as having been born at Hounslow, 14 years of age, 4' 8" in height, with a fair complexion, hazel eyes and brown hair.
He eventually served 31 years completing his Army career as Regimental Sergeant Major, on 1st of December 1893. Medal and clasp for Zulu War, 1879, and the Long Service & Good Conduct medal in 1886. On the 21st of February 1900 he enlisted into the 56th Squadron of the Imperial Yeomanry (Buckinghamshire) 15th Bn. as a Private No. 1304, and was promoted to Regimental Sergeant Major on the same day. He was then 46 years 4 months of age. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on the 20th of March 1901. He served 1 year 8 days in South Africa, being entitled to the Queen's South Africa medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal. His next of kin was shown as his wife, Jessie Catherine Kennedy, then living at No. 12 Queen's Road, Hounslow