KIMPTON, Stephen Macdonald
| Service Number: | VX38174 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 2nd later 2nd/2nd Heavy (later Composite) Anti Aircraft Regiment |
| Born: | Toorak, Victoria, Australia, 5 March 1914 |
| Home Town: | Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Oxford University UK |
| Occupation: | Manager |
| Died: | Toorak, Victoria, Australia, 18 July 1997, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Jul 1940: | Enlisted VX38174 | |
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| 31 Mar 1945: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Mentioned in Dispatches for gallant & distinguished services in Papua New Guinea Area. C of A gazzette 15 March 1945 (No:54), page 649 (9) Captain Stephen McDonald Kimpton VX38174 | |
| 11 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, VX38174, 2nd later 2nd/2nd Heavy (later Composite) Anti Aircraft Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Julianne Marsh
Captain S. McD. Kimpton VX38174 served with the 2/4 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, and was stationed in the Middle East when he wrote to Malvern Council on 10 January 1943:
Dear Sir, I wish to thank you and the citizens of Malvern for your kind Xmas wishes and gift of 6/- canteen orders. They will prove very useful indeed. We are now having a quiet time in Palestine and a fair number are going on leave each week: it is rather a different life to our time in the desert. The war news is now so encouraging that perhaps we can hope that Xmas 1943 will bring us near the end of this dreary war. Thanking you again for your kind thoughts. Yours sincerely, Stephen Kimpton.
Used with the kind permission of the Stonnington History Centre.
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