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Private J Stemp


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Private John STEMP, S/516, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 26th September 1915.

Born Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent.

21st April 1892, Register Office Sevenoaks, married Emma Leigh, spinster, 4, Box Cottages, Longford Hill, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Child - Jessie Stemp, born 3rd December 1901, Bromley, Kent.

Previously served 12 years Hampshire Regiment, 1 year RWK Reserve.


1911 Census - 4, Box Cottages, Longford Hill, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent. - John Stemp, head, age 43, married, Railway Labourer, South East & Chatham Railway, worker, born Sevenoaks, Kent; Emma Stemp, wife, age 44, married 19 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Edenbridge, Kent; Jessie Stemp, daughter, age 10, born Bromley, Kent; Eileen Stemp, daughter, age 2, born Sevenoaks, Kent.


Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, age 45, height 5ft 4½ inches, grey eyes, brown hair, tattoo marks on chest & both arms. Resided 4, Box Cottages, Longford Hill, Dunton Green, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 26th September 1915.

7th September 1914, enlisted; 9th September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th February 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th March 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th August 1915, posted BEF; 26th September 1915, posted missing.

12th June 1916, pension awarded of 20/- a week for widow and one child.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France.


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