Lonsdale District Scouts

Ken Keenan 1st Carnforth

Lancaster Guardian, 21st April, 1944

CASUALTIES:
CARNFORTH SCOUT KILLED IN ITALY

He Survived Dunkirk, N. Africa And Sicily

THE 1st Carnforth Group of Boy Scouts has sustained a further loss by the news received by his parents that Sergt. Ken Keenan has been killed in action on March 26th.

Ken Keenan was called up prior to the war and joined the Royal Artillery. Since then he had always been in the thickest of the fighting, first, in France and Dunkirk, and later in the Eighth Army during its most critical periods In North Africa, following on with them into Tunisia, Sicily and Italy.

He was first of all a member of the Scout Group in Carnforth almost at its inception and when a Rover Crew was formed in 1937 he was honoured by the members electing him as First Rover Mate. A keen Scout and Rover, Sergt. Keenan attended annually the summer camps in Ireland and elsewhere. He always took a prominent part in Group activities, assisted to erect the Capenwray Rover Den, played football, was an accomplished accordionist, playing at local concerts and the annual Gang Shows produced by the Scouts before the war. He was of an unassuming disposition. His loss is deeply felt by the leaders and members of the Group as he had maintained contact with the Group right through the war. Rover Scouts extend sympathy to his parents who formerly lived in Carnforth and are now in Slyne Road, Lancaster.

Note:

According to the CWGC website Ken, age 25, of the 132 (The Glamorgan Yeomanry) Field Regt. is buried in the Cassino War Cemetery, Italy. He was the son of  Mr. and Mrs. D. Keenan, of Lancaster.