A Gallant Officer

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 16 July 1903, Page 2

A Gallant Officer

One of the most dashing and determined officers in the British army is Major Paul Aloysnus Kenna, V V He is a Catholic, a nephew of Cardinal Mot an, and an ex-pupil of the great Jisuit College of Stom hurst ITe is at present with the British troops in Sonialilund, and his permanent address there is wherever the toughest

fighting has to be done, and reckless gallantry is the order of the day. His name has been conspicuously before the British public for some time past for the extraordinary skill and daring with which, on several occasions, he has rescued the British troops from positions of great and pressing danger. ' His name,' says ' T.A.T.,' anew London weekly, ' is a household word in India as that of the most accomplished sportsman the British army has recently produced ; while here, there, and everywhere where the annals of the army make their way he is celebrated as a gallant and brilliant soldier. His Victoria Cross was gallantly earned, as was the Royal Humane Society's certificate for life-saving in the Laffey in 1895. That was the most eventful, the happiest, and the saddest year of his life. He married, and lost by death, within a few months, the daughter of the Earl of Abingdon. Since then he has worked hard to obliterate gnawing sorrow, and has engaged in a thousand hazardous enterprises, in pursuit of savage animals, in the hunting and polo field, in the racing saddle, and on the battlefield. His most recent exploits in Somaliland keep fresh in mind his notable soldierly qualities.'