Howard Kennedy

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Howard Kennedy (31 May 1892 – 1967) was a Canadian Army officer and the first Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1950 to 1951.[1]

Kennedy was a leading engineer in Ottawa before World War II. Joining the Canadian Army in 1939, he rose to be Quartermaster-General in 1943–44.[2]

See also[]

  • List of Directors and Commissioners-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

References[]

  1. ^ Benjamin N. Schiff, Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 292
  2. ^ J. L. Granatstein, The generals: the Canadian army's senior commanders in the Second World War, University of Calgary Press, 2005, p.206

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Positions in intergovernmental organisations
New office Director for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
May 1950–June 1951 		Succeeded by
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