Frederick Clifford KEMP

KEMP, Frederick Clifford

Service Number: 1761
Enlisted: 28 December 1914, Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Waverley, Wanganui, New Zealand, 28 January 1888
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Bank Clerk - Bank of Australia, Sydney
Died: Winton, Queensland, Australia, 12 June 1958, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Winton General Cemetery, Qld
Private Sect. Row Q Grave: 146
Memorials: Epping Men Great War Honor Roll
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World War 1 Service

28 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1761, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW
17 Mar 1915: Involvement Private, 1761, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
17 Mar 1915: Embarked Private, 1761, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Frederick KEMP and Lillian KEMP nee PIPER, The Rectory, Epping, New South Wales

Husband of Alice Monckton KEMP nee DUNCAN

Frederick enlisted on 28 December 1914 at Liverpool and embarked for active serivce to Gallipoli where he was wounded 7th August 1915.  He then went onto Egypt and later France where he was again wounded 23rd July 1916.   Invalided back to Australia and discharded 01 September 1919.

KEMP-DUNCAN
A very quiet wedding was solemnized in St. Andrew's Church on Monday last, (12 November 1923) the contracting parties being Alice MoncktonDuncan, "Mooraberrie", Windorah and Frederick Clifford Kemp of Sydney (late of the A.I.F.) The Rev H.C. Wilson officiated. The bridal party left by mail train the same day for Sydney, where the honeymoon is being spent.

Later in life he was associated with Mooraberrie and Donald Downs and in 1967 his widow Alice Duncan-Kemp applied for his Gallipoli medal from an address in Oakey.

Frederick died 12th June 1958 was buried in the Winton Cemetery.

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