He was remembered in Winston Churchill's famous broadcast speech on 13 May 1945 "Five years of War", as having defended Ireland's honour:"When I think of these days I think also of other episodes and personalities. I do not forget Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde V.C., D.S.O., Lance-Corporal Kenneally, V.C., Captain Fegen V.C., and other Irish heroes that I could easily recite, and all bitterness by Britain for the Irish race dies in my heart. I can only pray that in years which I shall not see, the shame will be forgotten and the glories will endure, and that the peoples of the British Isles and of the British Commonwealth of Nations will walk together in mutual comprehension and forgiveness." In 1943, Kenneally had married Elsie Francis; they had two sons and a daughter. He finished his military career in the newly formed 1st Guards Parachute Battalion and later bought himself out of the army in July 1948 to be with his wife and children. Later life Kenneally went into the motor trade after the army and remained in it for the rest of his working life. Reflecting on his heroic actions in Tunisia during an interview some years after the war's end, Kenneally said that he charged the Germans only because of "a strange don't-give-a-damn feeling" which had suddenly possessed him. He briefly appeared in the news again in 2000 when he published his autobiography and wrote to the Daily Telegraph rebuking Peter Mandelson for calling the Irish Guards "chinless wonders". The medal His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Guards Regimental Headquarters (Irish Guards RHQ) in Wellington Barracks, London, England. Bibliography References External links Obituary in The Times 1921 births 2000 deaths Military personnel from Birmingham, West Midlands Irish Guards soldiers British Army personnel of World War II British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross Honourable Artillery Company soldiers British Parachute Regiment soldiers British autobiographers Place of death missing 20th-century pseudonymous writers People educated at King Edward VI Five Ways British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross People of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War