Alfred Kennedy (British Army officer)

Major-General Alfred Alexander Kennedy CB CMG (1870–1926) was a British Army officer.

[4][5] After transferring to British India, he was in March 1901 appointed aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir George Luck, Commanding the Forces, Bengal Command, and from April the same year also held a temporary appointment as Assistant Military Secretary to the command.

[9] In May 1915, during the First World War, Kennedy was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general and succeeded Brigadier General Charles Kavanagh in command of the 7th Cavalry Brigade.

[13] After the war he was promoted to substantive major general in June 1919[14] and served as a military governor in occupied German territory[15] and then in June 1923 became GOC 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division in succession to Major General Henry Rodolph Davies[16] before his death in March 1926.

[18] In 1898, he married Dora Campbell, daughter of Walter Thomas Rowley.