Alfred Kennedy (British Army officer)

Kennedy was commissioned into the 3rd The King's Own Hussars on 10 October 1891.^[3] He was promoted to lieutenant on 16 November 1892, and to captain on 23 May 1896.^[4][5]

After transferring to British India, he was in March 1901 appointed aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir George Luck, Commanding the Forces, Bengal Command, and from April the same year also held a temporary appointment as Assistant Military Secretary to the command.^[6] In July he was promoted to major.^[7]

In April 1913 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel,^[8] and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in February 1915.^[9]

In May 1915, during the First World War, Kennedy was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general and succeeded Brigadier General Charles Kavanagh in command of the 7th Cavalry Brigade.^[10] He was made a substantive colonel in April 1917^[11] and later commanded the 4th Cavalry Division at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917^[12] and, after becoming commander of the 230th Infantry Brigade in July 1918,^[13] he commanded the brigade in the Hundred Days Offensive.^[14]

After the war he was promoted to substantive major general in June 1919^[15] and served as a military governor in occupied German territory^[16] and then in June 1923 became GOC 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division in succession to Major General Henry Rodolph Davies^[17] before his death in March 1926.^[18]

He was colonel of the 3rd The King's Own Hussars, in succession to General Lord Byng, from January 1924^[19] until his death in 1926.^[20]

In 1898, he married Dora Campbell, daughter of Walter Thomas Rowley.^[21]