Thomas Hartley Kemp

Ranville War Cemetery

Thomas (Hartley) Kemp.

Personal Details:

Born in Liverpool on 1st November 1910.

Son of Thomas Hartley & Catherine Beatrice (Nee Thompson) Kemp.

Married Nesta Elleanor Jones of Southgate, Middlesex. B.A.(Dunelm) in quarter 1, 1940.

Father of Andrea K. Kemp.

The 1939 register records Thomas as a schoolmaster in Welwyn, Hertfordshire.

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Military Details:

Regiment:           1st/7th Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey).

Rank:                 Captain.

Serial Number:   207689.

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Record of Death:

Killed in action in Normandy 22nd July 1944. Aged 33.

Buried in Ranville War cemetery France. VIII. F. 23.

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Gravestone Inscription:

"WE LIVED, FELT DAWN, SAW SUNSET GLOW, LOVED AND WERE LOVED"

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Further information:

The family lived at Oathills, Chester Road, Malpas in 1939.

His sister, Alison Thompson Kemp who was engaged in Red Cross work in Chester, married Lieutenant Roy Townley Davies from Prenton in Malpas on Saturday 14th November 1942.

Thomas' father was the superintendent of the Malpas reservoir.

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