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Major James Augustin McKenna Jr.
1885 – 1918 Gate of Heaven Cemetery
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- Birth
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Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA
- Death
- 28 Jul 1918 (aged 32)
Villeneuve-sur-Fere, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France
- Burial
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Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA Add to Map
- Plot
- Section 6: Corridor 3: Grave 2
- Memorial ID
- 244489325 View Source
WWI -- Major 165th Regiment, 83rd Brigade, third "Shamrock" Battalion, killed in action 28 July, Battle of the Ourcq River, near Villeneuve-sur-Fere, Second Battle of the Marne (July-August 1918). Awarded Distinguished Service Cross, 1918.
Originally buried in July 1918 Chateau-Thierry, Aisne, France. Cemetery #388, Grave #110. Removed to Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mt Pleasant (Hawthorne), NY, 15 Jul 1921.
Memorial located in the "McKenna Triangle," Queens, NYC, a small NYC park dedicated to Major James A McKenna, at Jackson Ave, 45th Ave, and Thompson Street, Queens, NY. See http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mckenna-triangle/history∼Major James McKenna, 165th Infantry, was killed in that glorious and terrible day's fighting across the Ourcq at the end of last July, an undying memory to all who had any share in it.
Major James Augustine McKenna, jr., who was a special student in the College of Agriculture in 1903-04 Cornell U, has been killed in action.
After leaving Cornell, he took a special course at Harvard, and later took a course in law at Fordham. Prior to his enlistment in the Rainbow Division, he was a practicing lawyer in New York City. He was formerly a member of the Seventh New York Regiment, and was in service on the Mexican border for nine months. He sailed for France with the ''Fighting Sixty-ninth," as a captain, and was later promoted to major. He had been at the front since November, his company having been the first to enter the trenches.
He was buried at Chateau Thierry, near the spot where he fell.
Major McKenna was thirty-four years old. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. McKenna, of New York, one sister, and two brothers, one of whom is in action in France.
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Major (Infantry) James A. McKenna, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 165th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, A.E.F., near Villers-sur-Fere, 28 July 1918. Major McKenna was killed while successfully leading a most difficult and trying attack across the River Ourcq, and against the strongly prepared positions on the heights beyond.
Originally buried in July 1918 Chateau-Thierry, Aisne, France. Cemetery #388, Grave #110. Removed to Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mt Pleasant (Hawthorne), NY, 15 Jul 1921.
Memorial located in the "McKenna Triangle," Queens, NYC, a small NYC park dedicated to Major James A McKenna, at Jackson Ave, 45th Ave, and Thompson Street, Queens, NY. See http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mckenna-triangle/history∼Major James McKenna, 165th Infantry, was killed in that glorious and terrible day's fighting across the Ourcq at the end of last July, an undying memory to all who had any share in it.
Major James Augustine McKenna, jr., who was a special student in the College of Agriculture in 1903-04 Cornell U, has been killed in action.
After leaving Cornell, he took a special course at Harvard, and later took a course in law at Fordham. Prior to his enlistment in the Rainbow Division, he was a practicing lawyer in New York City. He was formerly a member of the Seventh New York Regiment, and was in service on the Mexican border for nine months. He sailed for France with the ''Fighting Sixty-ninth," as a captain, and was later promoted to major. He had been at the front since November, his company having been the first to enter the trenches.
He was buried at Chateau Thierry, near the spot where he fell.
Major McKenna was thirty-four years old. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. McKenna, of New York, one sister, and two brothers, one of whom is in action in France.
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Major (Infantry) James A. McKenna, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 165th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, A.E.F., near Villers-sur-Fere, 28 July 1918. Major McKenna was killed while successfully leading a most difficult and trying attack across the River Ourcq, and against the strongly prepared positions on the heights beyond.
WWI -- Major 165th Regiment, 83rd Brigade, third "Shamrock" Battalion, killed in action 28 July, Battle of the Ourcq River, near Villeneuve-sur-Fere, Second Battle of the Marne (July-August 1918). Awarded Distinguished Service Cross, 1918.
Originally buried in July 1918 Chateau-Thierry, Aisne, France. Cemetery #388, Grave #110. Removed to Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mt Pleasant (Hawthorne), NY, 15 Jul 1921.
Memorial located in the "McKenna Triangle," Queens, NYC, a small NYC park dedicated to Major James A McKenna, at Jackson Ave, 45th Ave, and Thompson Street, Queens, NY. See http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mckenna-triangle/history∼Major James McKenna, 165th Infantry, was killed in that glorious and terrible day's fighting across the Ourcq at the end of last July, an undying memory to all who had any share in it.
Major James Augustine McKenna, jr., who was a special student in the College of Agriculture in 1903-04 Cornell U, has been killed in action.
After leaving Cornell, he took a special course at Harvard, and later took a course in law at Fordham. Prior to his enlistment in the Rainbow Division, he was a practicing lawyer in New York City. He was formerly a member of the Seventh New York Regiment, and was in service on the Mexican border for nine months. He sailed for France with the ''Fighting Sixty-ninth," as a captain, and was later promoted to major. He had been at the front since November, his company having been the first to enter the trenches.
He was buried at Chateau Thierry, near the spot where he fell.
Major McKenna was thirty-four years old. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. McKenna, of New York, one sister, and two brothers, one of whom is in action in France.
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Major (Infantry) James A. McKenna, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 165th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, A.E.F., near Villers-sur-Fere, 28 July 1918. Major McKenna was killed while successfully leading a most difficult and trying attack across the River Ourcq, and against the strongly prepared positions on the heights beyond.
Originally buried in July 1918 Chateau-Thierry, Aisne, France. Cemetery #388, Grave #110. Removed to Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mt Pleasant (Hawthorne), NY, 15 Jul 1921.
Memorial located in the "McKenna Triangle," Queens, NYC, a small NYC park dedicated to Major James A McKenna, at Jackson Ave, 45th Ave, and Thompson Street, Queens, NY. See http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mckenna-triangle/history∼Major James McKenna, 165th Infantry, was killed in that glorious and terrible day's fighting across the Ourcq at the end of last July, an undying memory to all who had any share in it.
Major James Augustine McKenna, jr., who was a special student in the College of Agriculture in 1903-04 Cornell U, has been killed in action.
After leaving Cornell, he took a special course at Harvard, and later took a course in law at Fordham. Prior to his enlistment in the Rainbow Division, he was a practicing lawyer in New York City. He was formerly a member of the Seventh New York Regiment, and was in service on the Mexican border for nine months. He sailed for France with the ''Fighting Sixty-ninth," as a captain, and was later promoted to major. He had been at the front since November, his company having been the first to enter the trenches.
He was buried at Chateau Thierry, near the spot where he fell.
Major McKenna was thirty-four years old. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. McKenna, of New York, one sister, and two brothers, one of whom is in action in France.
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Major (Infantry) James A. McKenna, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 165th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, A.E.F., near Villers-sur-Fere, 28 July 1918. Major McKenna was killed while successfully leading a most difficult and trying attack across the River Ourcq, and against the strongly prepared positions on the heights beyond.
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244489325/james_augustin-mckenna: accessed ), memorial page for Major James Augustin McKenna Jr. (23 Sep 1885–28 Jul 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 244489325, citing Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA; Maintained by MGH (contributor 47709483).
