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First Name: | Arthur | Last Name: | KEMP |
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Date of Death: | 09/01/1917 | Lived/Born In: | City | |
Rank: | Corporal | Unit: | Honourable Artillery Company2 | |
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Current Information:Age-27 Enlisted-Armoury House, EC1 Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery, Somme
2nd Honourable Artillery Company, an infantry battalion despite its name, arrived in France on 2nd October, 1916 and became part of 22 Brigade, 7th Division. Their first experience in the front line came just over a week later, on 11th October, 1916, when they took over the trenches in part of Ploegsteert Wood, just across the Belgian border from Armentières. They remained in this sector throughout October and most of November before moving south to the Somme for the rest of the winter. On 5th January, 1917, they left the village of Bertrancourt and relieved 9th Devon in Brigade reserve at Beaumont-Hamel from where they provided working and carrying parties for a number of duties, including taking supplies to the front, a dangerous task given the hostile shelling taking place. It was while on a ration party on 9th January that Arthur Kemp was killed. |
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