Background
Albert Walton Kenner was born on December 15, 1889, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In his youth, his family moved to Virginia, where he grew up.
Albert Walton Kenner was born on December 15, 1889, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In his youth, his family moved to Virginia, where he grew up.
He attended an Emerson Institute and subsequently George Washington University, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine
During World World War II, he was a Chief medical officer for Operation Torch and Operation Overlord. in 1915. Kenner joined the Army in 1916 and served during Pancho Villa Expedition. Following World War I, Kenner sailed to France with the American Expeditionary Force, where he served as a medical officer in the 26th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division.
During the heavy fighting at Soissons, the regimental commander, Colonel Hamilton A. Smith, was mortally wounded.
Kenner voluntarily went through front lines under heavy machine-gun fire in the hope of helping him. Finding Colonel Smith dead, he recovered his body and returned to his lines.
Major general Kenner retired on June 30, 1949 and stayed in Washington, District of Columbia On April 16, 1962, the army hospital at Fort Lee, Virginia (now Kenner Army Health Clinic) was named in his honor.
He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at George Washington.
Married Mlle.