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.
He was educated at Milne's Institution in Fochabers.
George was a Police Constable in the Lanarkshire Constabulary before the war.
His father died in 1910.
He enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in July 1915 and served in France and Flanders from June 1916.
At 4:15am on 24 April 1917, an attack was launched on the villages of Beauchamp and Villers-Plouich, between Cambrai and Peronne. George was killed in action. A fellow soldier described what happened: "He was acting as a stretcher-bearer and was killed by a bursting shell while bandaging up a wounded man in a shell-hole. All the boys are giving him the highest praise for the good work he did in the early stages of the attack".
George Kemp is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
12599 Pte George Kemp, 14th Bn Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)