Name: Robert Carman Kelly
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Llandovery Castle (Hospital Ship), Canadian Army Medical Corps
Date of Birth: November 22, 1897 in Havelock, Ontario, Canada
Date of Death: 27 June, 1918 in the Celtic Sea, Ireland
Service No: 195880
Memorial: Halifax Memorial, Nova Scotia, Canada
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 2.
Additional information: Robert was the son of Daniel Kelly and Maggie O’Neil of Havelock. He died at aged 20 during the sinking of the HMHS Llandovery Castle, Canada’s deadliest naval disaster. The incident became infamous internationally and was considered, after the Armenian genocide, as one of the war’s worst atrocities. The case of Llandovery Castle was one of six alleged German war crimes prosecuted at the Leipzig trials in 1921.
