Howard Kennedy (Canadian Army officer)
Howard Kennedy (31 May 1892 – 1967) was a Canadian Army officer and the first Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1950 to 1951.[1]
Kennedy was a leading engineer in Ottawa before World War II. Joining the Canadian Army in 1939, he rose to be Quartermaster-General in 1943–44.[2] He was awarded the OBE in January 1944.[3]
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[edit]- ^ Benjamin N. Schiff, Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 292
- ^ J. L. Granatstein, The generals: the Canadian army's senior commanders in the Second World War, University of Calgary Press, 2005, p.206
- ^ "No. 36310". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1943. p. 50.
