KEMP, Joseph Harold
Service Number: | 23 |
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Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Liverpool, New South Wales, 1893 |
Home Town: | Liverpool, Fairfield, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Fireman |
Died: | Maitland, New South Wales, 1965, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
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20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, HMAT A14 Euripides from Sydney | |
8 Nov 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 23, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Nicholson embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
8 Nov 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 23, 4th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Nicholson, Sydney | |
24 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
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4 Battalion
Rank - Private Later Lance Sergeant
13 May 1915 - Wounded in action - gunshot wound to the hand
12 December 1915 - Returned to Australia on board HT Star of England
29 March 1916 - Reported to Liverpool, NSW as medically fit
8 November 1916 Embarked for overseas on board SS Nicholson
15 April 1917 Missing believed Prisoner of War. Later located in the Limburg Camp for Prisoners of War
Returned to Australia 19 June 1919
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Son of Mrs. H. Kemp, Rawson Park, Ingleburn, New South Wales. Husband of Selina Kemp nee Cudd