Joseph Harold KEMP

KEMP, Joseph Harold

Service Number: 23
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
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World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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Biography

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

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