Kemp Ernest Pte 4467948
Personnel Entry
Name Kemp Ernest
Army number 4467948
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born Hull 1921/22.
Age 22 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests later in 1939. Posted ? Bn DLI. Transferred to the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1/10/1940. Posted ? Battalion. Transferred back to The DLI 29/12/1940, and posted to the Young Soldiers Battalion. Posted to the 10th Battalion The DLI. Served Iceland? Served Normandy. Wounded. DIED of WOUNDS 12/7/1944 with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
Company/Battery Company not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Date not yet confirmed.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Yes - reported wounded 18/7/1944 according to War Office records. By that date he had already died from his wounds.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action DIED of WOUNDS 12-Jul-44. Interred initially in the Jerusalem Temporary Cemetery at Map Reference 7F/1 816.724. Re-buried 17/2/1945 in Grave 1. F. 13. Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads : WE PICTURED HIS RETURN THE CLASP OF HIS HAND GOD WILLED WE MEET IN A FAR OFF LAND.
Home address Resident of Hull. Husband of Marion Kemp, Hull.
Source table 10DLI