KEMPSTER, Thomas
| Service Number: | SX11381 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 February 1941, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kadina, South Australia, 7 October 1916 |
| Home Town: | Marree (Hergott Springs), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Industrial School Edwardstown, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 18 December 1967, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Marree War Memorial Area |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Feb 1941: | Involvement Corporal, SX11381, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 22 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX11381 | |
| 5 Sep 1947: | Discharged | |
| 5 Sep 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX11381 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Thomas Kempster (Service No:SX11381) enlisted in the Army on 22 February 1941 as a Private and served with 2/43 Infantry Battalion in the Middle East, New Guinea and Kure, Japan (1946/1947). Corporal Kempster was attached to 2/43 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 5 September 1947.
Born Roger Arnold Kempster in Kadina, South Australia in 1916, Thomas was the seventh of eight children of John (Jack) Alexander Kempster (b1872 at Magpie Creek, Clare, South Australia) and Ellen Weldon (b1877 at Keilli, Port Pirie, South Australia). Jack (a Labourer) and Ellen married in 1905 in Kadina - and lived there and in Bute, Wokurna, Wallaroo Mines, Brenda Creek via Morgan and in Mitcham, where Jack worked as a farm Hand, Woodcutter and Labourer.
Thomas (and his sister Ina) had some encounters with the Police, and served time at Edwardstown Industrial School (where he worked as a Labourer) and used the name Thomas. He worked as a Stockman at Palpararra via Windorah in QLD and at Maree in SA before enlisting in the Army. Following his Discharge, Thomas worked as a Stockman in QLD, at Bunumbert Station via Hay in NSW, and in the Alice Springs region in the NT. Thomas died in 1967.
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