Thursday 29 April 2010

38672 Pte Bertie Kemp, 4th Bn, North Staffs Regt

38672 Private Bertie Kemp of the 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 29th Aprl 1918. He was 23 years old, the son of William B and Mary Beatrice Kemp of Somersal Hill, Doveridge, Derby. Bertie was living at Rocester, Staffordshire at the time of his enlistment. He enlisted at Uttoxeter.

Bertie Kemp is buried in Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery, one of 33 Commonwealth casualties resting there.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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