Major Robert Logan Kennedy died in February 1968 aged 74 years, he joined the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars in India in 1913 and was posted to ‘B’ Squadron.
Whilst serving with the Regiment in India he became a promising polo player, a champion boxer and top-class at football and cricket.
Severely wounded in the head on the 21st December 1914 at Festubert in what was about the first engagement of the Regiment, left him almost for dead. He slowly recovered but his wound was so severe that it prevented him from rejoining the Regiment, however, he got employment with the Royal Flying Corps until the end of hostilities.
Finding himself not fit enough to proceed with the Regiment to India, he retired in 1919. After a spell in Kenya, he returned to England, took up golf and at one time reached the fifth round of the Amateur Golf Championships.
