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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]
See also
References
^ 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.
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