THE DATE CAPT. D. A. KENN?

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 4

THE DATE CAPT. D. A. KENN?

AN INTERESTING .LETTER.

Many friends of the late Captain D. A. Kenny, of Wellington, will.be interested in a letter which has been received by Mr W. Eraser (executor for Captain Kenny) from Miss Fanny Wilson, matron of tho Walton-on-Tliames. Hospital (and formerly of the'staff of the Wellington, Hospital). Tho letter was written a dar or two before Captain Kenny died, and reads as follows:"Saturday, April 6, • 191S-—No doubt vou will bb awaiting the mail, for dear 'old Captain Kenny has been wired out as dangerously ill to-day. He came hero ten days ago with appendicitis, but the acute stage was over when ho arrived. He was allowed to get up and sit about ii little, but ho still kept getting pain, so on Wednesday he had his appendix removed. Ho is a somewhat difficult ease, but had a fair night on Wednesday t Thursday he was not so well, and he gradually got worso until to-day, when I think and hopo ho seems better. . . . I have put two good nurses on to 'special' hi in, and he is such a, dear, patient boy, but so very ill. 1 hope long before this reaches you ho will be quite*well again, but the doctors are certainly anxious vol. We have about MOO patients, and they are simply pouring in from this last stunt. • But aren't they glad to sec us when they arrive, the poor kids. It should bn explain*! that prior to his death Captain Kenny was back with the guns. During his tour with tho little company of entertainers who became so popular behind the lines, and in Paris too,"Captain Kenny made mora than ono request to lie allowed to rejoin, his machine-gun section, and that wish was gratified towards the end of March, but ho could only have been with hia section a fow days before seized with the illness (appendicitis) that terminated fatally after an operation.