Kenneth Halliday from Lyme Regis, then serving in the RAF, was reported as signing for Exeter City in January 1945. Killed in military training several months later, it is not clear whether he ever played for the club although his name is appropriately recorded on the Grecians' war memorial.

Kenneth's signing for City on amateur forms was reported in the Express & Echo on 12 January 1945. The paper noted that the twenty-year-old goalkeeper was 'well-built and has been highly recommended by Reg Clarke, the former Exeter half-back.' He had been playing regularly for representative RAF sides in Lancashire where, in one game, his opposite number was Arthur Chesters who had kept goal for the Grecians between 1933 and 1937. The recommendation from Reg Clarke would have arisen on account of the former City stalwart living in Seaton just along the coast from Lyme Regis.

Kenneth was expected to make his debut against Plymouth Argyle at St James' Park on 20 January 1945. However, despite his name appearing in the programme, he hadn't been able to travel. Thereafter it is unclear how many times he turned out for City, if he ever did, before the young air cadet was killed in training several months later.

The news of Kenneth's death was carried by Express & Echo on 12 May 1945, days after the end of the war in Europe and exactly four months after the same paper related the news of his signing for the Grecians. The paper recorded that he was a grandson of the mayor of Lyme Regis and that, before joining the R.AF, Kenneth had 'assisted his father in a garage business'. 

Kenneth is remembered on the war memorial in Lyme Regis and on the World War Two plaque at St James' Park.

There is an entry for Kenneth in the Killed in Action section of this archive.