Howard John Kennard

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Captain Howard John Kennard, J.P., D.L., Royal Navy (11 June, 1882 – 16 February, 1967) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

On 13 December, 1912, Kennard was appointed to Lion to be her gunnery officer.[1]

On 30 June, 1913, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.[2] On 3 January, 1914, he was appointed along with Cecil H. Pilcher to Vivid for gunnery school.[3]

On 30 June, 1918, he was promoted to Captain.[4] In December, 1918, he was one of two Assistant Directors of Artillery and Torpedoes.

Kennard died on 16 February, 1967 at the age of eighty-four. At the time of his death he was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Stirlingshire.[5]

Bibliography

Service Record

 

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 340.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 56.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 394.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 335a.
  5. ↑ "Obituary" (Obituaries). The Times. Friday, 17 February, 1967. Issue 56868, col G, p. 14.

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