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KENNEDY,JN: 2/2 1919 Aug-1920 Sep
Manuscript diaries recording Kennedy's service as an artillery officer with the British Military Mission to South Russia, Aug 1919-Jul 1920, including his arrival at Taganrog, Russia, and appointment as Artillery Liaison Officer of the 1 Corps of the anti-Bolshevik White Russian Volunteer Army, Aug 1919; journey to Kharkov and meetings with Russian Maj Gen Belaieff, Inspector General of Artillery, 1 Corps, White Russian Volunteer Army and Russian Gen Kootyepoff, Commander, 1 Corps, White Russian Volunteer Army, Sep 1919; censure of the behaviour of other officers of the Mission; move to Belgorod, Russia, Headquarters, 1 Corps, White Russian Volunteer Army, Sep 1919; numerous observations on his contacts with Russian civilians; joining up with 1 Corps artillery and description of fighting near Kursk, Russia, during which the town of Ariol, (Orel), Russia, was captured by the White Russian Volunteer Army, Oct 1919; return to Taganrog, Russia, Nov 1919; meeting with Maj Gen Herbert Campbell Holman, Chief of British Military Mission; description of life at Taganrog, Russia, and references to Russian Gen Anton Denikin, Commander of the White Russian Volunteer Army, Dec 1919; detailed appreciation of the strategic situation in South Russia, including assessment of the causes of Denikin's failure, Dec 1919; at Novorossissk, Russia, new Headquarters of British Military Mission, Kennedy acting as Staff Capt, Royal Artillery, in charge of records, Jan 1920; remarks on Denikin, Feb-Mar 1920; sails to Theodosia, Crimea, Russia, just before fall of Novorossisk, Russia, with description of eyewitness accounts of fall of Novorossisk, Russia, Apr 1920; account of fighting in north Crimea, Russia, Apr 1920; descriptions of Crimea, Russia, Apr-Jun 1920; service with Allied Police Commission, Constantinople, Turkey, Jun-Sep 1920. 2 vols and typescript transcript, 227pp.
KENNEDY,JN: 2/3 1919-1920
Papers relating to Kennedy's service as an artillery officer with the British Military Mission to South Russia, including correspondence, maps and manuscript notes, notably typescript account by Kennedy of the fighting which resulted in the capture of Ariol (Orel) near Kursk, Russia, by the White Russian Volunteer Army, together with notes on the need for propaganda in support of the White Russian Volunteer Army, the supply of shrapnel fuses to 60 pounder guns and the use of tractor-drawn artillery in open warfare, Sep 1919; papers relating to the award to Kennedy of a Russian decoration for his part in the action at Orel, near Kursk, Russia, Sep 1919-May 1920; manuscript report by Maj Lennox Brett O'Brien, Senior Liaison Officer, Royal Field Artillery, British Military Mission to South Russia, detached with Ural, Russia, Cossacks, on events in Ural region, Russia, Jan-Apr 1920. 1 file.
KENNEDY,JN: 2/4 1922
Article by Kennedy entitled 'The Anti-Bolshevik movement in South Russia, 1917-1920', extracted from the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, vol 67 (Nov 1922). 22pp.
KENNEDY,JN: 9/4 [1965]
Bound typescript translation entitled 'Great battles fought during the First World War - 1914-1918 - Flanders 1917. Translated from German official history and General von Kuhl's account', by Col Roderick (Rory) Macleod. Presented by Macleod to Kennedy, Jul 1969. 67pp
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Kennedy, John, Sir, b. 1893.
Title The business of war; the war narrative of John Kennedy. Edited and with a pref. by Bernard Fergusson. Introd. by Walter Millis.
Publisher New York, Morrow, 1958 [c1957]
Description 370 p. illus. 24 cm.
Language English
Kennedy, John, Sir, 1893-
Title The business of war; the war narrative of Major-General Sir John Kennedy. Edited and with a preface by Bernard Fergusson.
Publisher London : Hutchinson, [1957]
Description 370 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language English
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