Remembered

On This Day, 24 April 1917

George Kemp was killed in action on this day in 1917

George Kemp was born on 30 October 1889 at Drainie, Morayshire. He was the third son of Peter Kemp (a farm manager) and Isabella (née Sellar) and one of five boys and two girls.

George was a Police Constable in the Lanarkshire Constabulary before the war.

He enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in July 1915 and served in France and Flanders from June 1916.

He was acting as a stretcher-bearer and was killed by a bursting shell while bandaging up a wounded man in a shell-hole at Beauchamp, between Cambrai and Peronne on 24 April 1917.

Geoge Kemp Pension Card — Pension Record Card for George Kemp of Elgin

George Kemp House — Family home in Elgin, 38 Hawthorn Rd (2008)

George Kemp is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

12599 Pte George Kemp, 14th Bn Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

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