No the snopes one doesn't reiterate all the points in your op.

It starts with an exact copy of what you have in the opening post (an email version), and below that it covers the points were there are discrepancies with the original account.

No matter what  way you look at it, Mr Kilroy did not add that drawing under his signature. The drawing originated in the UK before he started signing the ships.

Both links state Mr Kilroy used the prize added onto his house for accommodation for 6 of his 9 kids, not used as some novelty in the garden.

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@icyfroth wrote:

yes I read the links.

 

The wiki one is full of may be's, thought to be's and attributed to's.

 

the snopes one simple re-iterates what it says in my OP.

 

 

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It also says "  Status = undetermined." but in the end, does it really matter? Kilroy almost certainly was a real person, and whether or no he 'stole' Mr Chad's drawing, he was the one who ultimately made it famous.

Actually it was the servicemen who matched the saying with the drawing, and made it famous by leaving it in all  sorts of places all around the world.

You would be happy, she-ele, if someone took a phrase/sentence from one of your books and claimed it as their own? (Not that Mr Kilroy did that, the story has just grown to incorporate the drawing as his).