Howard Kennedy (Canadian Army officer)
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Howard Kennedy (31 May 1892 – 1967) was a Canadian Army officer and the first Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1950 to 1951.[1]
Born in Dunrobin, Ontario, Kennedy served overseas in the First World War.[2] He was a leading engineer in Ottawa before World War II. Joining the Canadian Army in 1939, he rose to be Quartermaster-General in 1943–44.[3] He was awarded the OBE in January 1944.[4]
After returning from Palestine he chaired the Board of Enquiry into the Reserve Army of Canada which produced the Kennedy Report on the Reserve Army.[2]
