Roll of Honour 2023

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W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name GEORGE JAKE BRIAN KENDALL (Acting Lt)

Lef SES 1939

Roll Number 2949 Died 27:03:1941

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1934

1935Where SHREWTON, WILTSHIRE Serving with FLEET AIR ARM, R.N.V.R.

Age 21

Buried All Saints’ Churchyard, Netheravon Remembered The Link School, Malvern Roll of Honour, Kirby Muxloe War Memorial, Leicestershire and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial Born in Cumbria 1929, the son of a Leicestershire family. He was a House Prefect, a member of the Lower General VIth Form, 3rd Rowing VIII, The Choir and a Corporal in the OTC. ‘Known as “Jake” and one who loved life and put into it all the keenest and enthusiasm of a generous nature. He was a House Prefect and did valuable service for his House and showed those qualities which, had he lived , would have made him a natural leader’ (Chronicle). Immediately on leaving School he joined the Fleet Air Arm R.N.V.R. in 1939 and two years later was in training as an Acting Lieutenant flying off H.M.S. Daedalus II, a British RN Air Station and Training Establishment based at Sandbanks, Devon. It was there in March 1941, in bad weather he was killed on active service during a night flight at Shrewton, Wiltshire, Devon. No further details known.