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[Accessed: 24 February 2015].
For the Honorable
Artillery Company, February
1915 was seen as
a routine month to maintain
The trenches -
one battalion soldier, who had
In peace time a
great deal on the sports field
Private 1832,
Kenneth Powell then aged 29.
Private Powell serving
before as a Territorial
Leaving his
father's company of leather factors
Joining with the
Honorable Artillery Company
Early September at
the front by months end.
Attending school
of Rugby, Kenneth Powell's
Talent was
hurdler and tennis player -
standing
At six foot,
Powell Powell first found fame as an
Athlete at Cambridge
inter-varsity match 1907.
To go onto play
Wimbledon tennis championships
Between years1905
to 1911 - with a 1913 return.
As an all round
sports man, he had competed
In hurdles, going
onto become Captain of Rugby
For the school
fifteen - and over two years
He possessed the
trophy of Victor Ludorum.
In his prowess as
a hurdler Powell, the athlete,
Was found to make
a record of 15 3.5 seconds
And played for
English tennis at Olympic games.
Being Captain of
Lawn Tennis and a Wimbledon
Player secured
Kenneth Powell's sport career.
Powell, a member
of the Cambridge University
Lawn Tennis Club,
went to win 1908 single title
At the Queens
Club - within that same year
In Sweden, He won
at the Covered Court -
Championships to
become a tennis Olympian.
A winner of matches,
with tennis his main
Game, Powell as a
left-handed player with great
Speed and agility,
had a weakness of a back
Handed shot - while
a volley ability was his best.
Serving with the
battalion at Kemmel Private
Powell in
February, his fifth month, was proving
Ordinary - a
player of 135 matches to his name
Those games he
won, outnumbered those lost.
With past
sporting competitions gone - now Powell
Swapped racket for
rifle - making duty, his watch
About the curving
battlefield of the Ypres salient,
Within the now established
stalemate situation.
Kenneth Powell, a
left-handed tennis player, in role
As Private, fought
at Ypres - stationed at Kemmel
Village on
February 17 - an ordinary, dull day -
On the front line
Private Powell was hit by a bullet,
Despite efforts
he died the next day of wounds.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Famous
Athlete Killed - K. Powell Dies of Wounds. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 24 Feb. P.12.
Col.2. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11421098/Daily-Telegraph-February-24-1915.html
[Accessed: 24 February 2015].
Source: File: Kenneth
Powell (tennis). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [online] Available at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Powell_%28tennis%29>
[Accessed: 24 February 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication,
24 February 2015).
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