Debrett - Director of Vet. Department, Sudan from 1924; formerly Ch. Vet. Officer, Kenya Colony; European War 1915-18 as Major EA Vet. Corps (despatches, DSO)

KAD 1922 - Chief Veterinary Officer.

KAD 1922 - Vice-Captain, Nairobi Golf Club

Curtis - p. 66 - The Maasai Move of 1911-12 - Gethin's description of the move - Bill Kennedy was the vet

Red 22 - Vice-Captain, Nairobi Golf Club

Gazette - 27/1/15 - Chief Veterinary Officer

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - William Kennedy, Veterinary Department

Gazette - 23/9/1914 - Appt. - To be Major, East Africa Veterinary Corps - W. Kennedy

Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - East Africa Veterinary Corps - To be Assistant Director of Veterinary Services - Major W. Kennedy

Medals - East Africa Veterinary Corps - W. Kennedy, Temporary Major later Major

Leader14 - Veterinary Officer, Nairobi

Colonial 1912 - Veterinary Dept. - Veterinary Officer

Red Book 1912 - W. Kennedy - Nairobi

Red Book 1912 - Agricultural Dept. - Veterinary Division - Veterinary Officer

Gazette 15/7/1910 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Veterinary Officer - 20/6/1910

Red Book 1919 - Veterinary Department - Deputy Chief Vet. Officer - W. Kennedy DSO

Gethin - 1912 - involved in Masai move from Laikipia to the Southern Reserve as a vet. Rupert Hemsted and Bill Kennedy were both exceptional men.

1939 England and Wales Register living in Gosport with wife, as Director, Sudan Vet. School, retired

He was Dir. of Sudan Vet. School 1924-1934

https://medcraveonline.com/JDVAR/directors-of-veterinary-services-in-the-anglo-egyptian-sudan-william-bill-kennedy-9-september-1924-september-1934.html William Kennedy was born in Scotland in 1884 and was elected a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS) in 1908. Working in British East Africa (now largely Kenya) in the years before the First World War (!914-1918) as a Veterinary Officer he was in part responsible for ensuring the health of livestock moving from the northern Masai areas to a southern reserve and preventing disease being transmitted to the herds of white settlers. Kennedy served in the East African Veterinary Corps as a Major throughout the war, was on the Staff of the Commander in Chief when Britain was fighting the armed forces of German East Africa and where his main concern was to ensure the health of the large number of riding and transport animals. He was three times Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After the war he was successively acting and then Chief Veterinary Officer of the Kenya Colony and Protectorate, issuing numerous proclamations designed to control rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia and foot and mouth disease. On Kennedy’s return to the British East Africa Protectorate he resumed his position as Acting Chief Veterinary Office. He there found that livestock disease was rampant in the southern reserve to which the Masai had been largely confined. In January 1918 rinderpest had killed nearly all the calves in Narok District. There were "upwards of half a million deaths" in 1919-1920 from tick-borne diseases, CBPP and rinderpest. Two years later in 1922 between 60 and 100 per cent of all cattle in Narok and Loitokitok districts died from rinderpest. Kennedy went to Narok to discuss what could be done about controlling or confining CBPP. He concluded that inoculating the three quarters of a million or so Masai cattle in the reserve would require a staff of at least eight veterinary officers and 50 stock inspectors whereas he had only 12 vets and 11 stock inspectors in the whole Protectorate. Other than this his main occupation in the years to 1924 as Acting Chief Veterinary Officer (although he continued to sign himself on occasion as “Major” appears to have been to make “Proclamations” in the government’s official Gazette either imposing or rescinding restrictions on livestock movement.
Leaving Kenya in 1924 he was appointed Director of Veterinary Services in Sudan, the first civilian to occupy the position. He served in Sudan until 1934 during a period when disease identification, diagnosis and control made great progress. Honoured with the award of the Order of the Nile Third Class by the King of Egypt, he retired to England and died there aged 80 in 1965.