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Surname: KEMP
Forename(s): Edward Harold
Place of Birth: Thorrington, Essex
Service No: 430787
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Mounted Rifles
Battalion / Unit: 4th Battalion
Division: 3rd Canadian Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1916-06-02
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 30, 32.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: ILKLEY, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Edward Harold Kemp (born 20 June 1883) was the son of John and Ellen Hobbes Kemp, née Davis. John was born at Alnwick, Northumberland and Ellen at Roundhay near Leeds, Yorkshire.
1891 Haughley, Suffolk Census: Vicarage - Edward H. Kemp, aged 7 years, born Thorrington, Essex, son of John and Ellen Hobbes Kemp.
Edward was married to Isabelle Affleck in 1910.
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Mounted Rifles
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 3rd Canadian Division
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Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Sergeant Edward Harold Kemp
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
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08 September 1916
KEMP – Previously reported missing now officially reported killed in action, aged 32 years, E. Harold Kemp, Sergeant, Canadian Mounted Rifles, ninth son of the late Rev. John Kemp and of Mrs. Kemp, Ilkley.
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