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CAMBRIDGE ST. BOTOLPH WAR MEMORIAL

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St Botolph's Church is located in Trumpington St, Cambridge. There is a single memorial within the church to Kenneth Wallis except for the Cambridge University Press memorial.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
KENNETH FERGUSON ARNOLD WALLIS
LIEUT RN WHO WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
WHILE SERVING IN THE GRAND FLEET ON
BOARD HMS ST VINCENT JANUARY 22 1918 AGED 26
THIS TABLET IS ERRECTED BY OFFICERS WHO WERE
SHIPMATES WITH HIM IN HMS TEMERAIRE DURING THE
PERIOD JANUARY 1913 TO FEBRUARY 1917

WALLIS

Kenneth Ferguson Arnold

Lieutenant, H.M.S. St Vincent, Royal Navy. Accidentally killed while conducting instruction on explosives 22 January 1918. Aged 26. Born 7 January 1892 in the Cambridge Registration District. Son of Arnold Joseph and Mary A. Wallis, of 5, Belvoir Terrace, Cambridge. Served in H.M.S. "Temeraire" 1913-17 and fought in the Battle of Jutland. Cadet Captain at Osborne and Dartmouth Colleges; won the first prize in the Cadets bayonet competition R.N. and M. Tournament, 1911. Enlisted 17 September 1894; became Sub_lieutenant 15 June 1912 and Lieutenant 15 November 1913. In the 1901 census he was aged 9, born Cambridge, resident with is arents, Arnold Joseph and May, at 5, Trumpington Road Belvoir Terrace, Cambridge. In the 1911 census he was aged 19, born Cambridge, unmarried, a Midshipman aboard H.M.S. Achilles, residing at Portsmouth. Buried in LYNESS ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY, Orkney. Section B. Grave 14. See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambridge University Press & College Servants and also Cambridge, St Faiths School

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