KEMP, James Oliver
| Service Number: | 815 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1916, Trained at Maitland Show Ground. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Plattsburg, Wallsend, 5 November 1889 |
| Home Town: | Plattsburg, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Plattsburg Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Died: | Wounds, No. 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France, 18 July 1917, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais Plot I, Row T, Grave No. 24 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wallsend Soldier's Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 815, 34th Infantry Battalion, Trained at Maitland Show Ground. | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 815, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 815, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 18 Jul 1917: | Wounded Battalion came in from front line to Wellington Trench, Messines (Mesen) in early morning. Germans bombed Messines that day, and Wellington trench was hit. One was killed and 5 wounded. Ol was wounded and taken to 2nd Clearing Station at Trois Arbres, near Steenwerck. His shrapnel wounds were so bad that he could not survive. He died, and was buried that day. (Nurse notified his parents of the severity of wounds). |
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Ol was the 7th of the twelve children of William and Isabella Kemp, and greatly loved by his entire family. He was obviously caring and community minded as there is book presented to him as a 12 year old by Plattsburg Council for his assistance in building their local Federal Park. He liked to dress well and took great care of his horse, but was known to be a hard worker. I have the toy iron he gave one of his neices (my grandmother), before he left for war, because he wouldn't be there for her fourth birthday. She always treasured it and could remember in her 90's his giving it to her.
The memorials placed in the paper by all family members, and his girlfriend, show what great affection he was held in by all, and that all generations since know of him bear testament to the man he must have been
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 18th July 1917, Private James Oliver Kemp, referred to as Ol, 34th Battalion (Reg No-815), carter from Maryland, Minmi Road, Wallsend, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at No. 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France, after the Battle of Messines (7th–14th June 1917), age 27 Years 9 Months.
No Roll of Honour circular summited.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Plattsburg, New South Wales on the 5th November 1889 to William R (died 19.12.1938, Bellbird, N.S.W., age 84 years, 9 months) from Maryland, Minmi Road, Wallsend, N.S.W., and Bellbird, N.S.W., and Isabella (Isobella, Isabel) Kemp nee Cherry (died 27.4.1922, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 64, mother of 7 daughters & 5 sons), from Maryland, Minmi Road, Wallsend, N.S.W., Ol enlisted on the 22nd January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Wounded in action - 18.7.1917 (multiple shrapnel wounds).
Mr. Kemp is resting at Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France. Plot I Row T Grave 24.
Place of Association - Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Ol’s name has been inscribed on the Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial, Wallsend Municipal District Roll of Honor, Federal Park Wallsend War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Ol has been memorialised at the gravesite of William Morgan Evans (died 17.11.1916, Cessnock Hospital, N.S.W., age 13 years & 3 weeks). ANGLICAN 1-62. 27.
Not memorialised at parent’s gravesite.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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