Other Information:Kenneth was educated at Framlingham College, and was about to take his final examination for the Institute of Chartered Accountants when the war began and he volunteered for overseas service. He enlisted into the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) and was embodied into the 6th London Divisional FIeld Ambulance. He entered the war in France on 15th March 1915. Kenneth was killed at Bourlon Wood whilst bringing in wounded. His Commanding Officer wrote “My relations with your son were rather different to the ordinary relations between an officer and a man, and in the last three years I had got frightfully fond of him. He and I had been together in the line and out of it; at cricket and hockey, in danger and out of it. It had absolutely stunned me.... Poor old Kenneth was the life and soul of the unit, and quite the most popular man we had. He volunteered on every possible occasion for the line, and, despite his physique, stuck it every time...... I can assure you that I am voicing the opinion of every officer and man of this unit when I say we have suffered an irreparable loss.” Kenneth was the youngest son of Thomas Edgar and Amelia Turner (daughter of J S J Nainer) Mayhew of 3 Rushmen Road, Ipswich.
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