Source: August 1918 casualty.
Family Search: When Private James Kennedy was born on 22 November 1894, in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Cooper Kennedy, was 28 and his mother, Janet Sim, was 28. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 26 August 1918, in Guémappe, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 