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Donald Gilbert Kennedy
BornMarch 1898
Springhills, New Zealand
Died1976
Bayly’s Beach, New Zealand
Occupation(s)teacher, colonial administrator
Donald Kennedy (left) serves tea to U.S. Marine Captain Clay Boyd (1943)

Donald Gilbert Kennedy (March 1898 – 1976) was a teacher, then an administrator in the British colonial service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. For his services as a Coastwatcher during the Pacific War (World War II), he was awarded the DSO,[1][2][3] and the Navy Cross (U.S.).[4][Note 1] He published journal articles and books on the material culture of Vaitupu atoll, land tenure and the language of the Ellice Islands.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Major Kennedy Decorated". XIV(5) Pacific Islands Monthly. 17 December 1943. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b Laracy, Hugh (2013). "Chapter 11 - Donald Gilbert Kennedy (1897-1967) An outsider in the Colonial Service" (PDF). Watriama and Co: Further Pacific Islands Portraits. Australian National University Press. ISBN 9781921666322.
  3. ^ a b Butcher, Mike (2012). ... when the long trick's over: Donald Kennedy in the Pacific. Holland House, Kennington, Vic. ISBN 978-0-9871627-0-0.
  4. ^ a b "Full Text Citations For Award of The Navy Cross". To Foreign Personnel - World War II. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.


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