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Military service
Service number:
R/88687
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
July 6, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot A (C of E) Joint grave 5619.
Additional information
Son of John Beverley Oxborough Kemp and Emma Donovan Kemp. Husband of Freda Rose Kemp, of Oakville, Ontario.
His brother Kenneth Donovan Kemp died on August 17, 1944 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
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Cemetery
Pilot F/Sgt. John B. Kemp, age 21, was training on #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft was carrying practice bombs and reconnaissance flares when it flew into some low cloud and crashed a few feet from the summit of a mountain at Cerric, Breconshire. He is buried in the Hereford Cemetery, Herefordshire, England. The other crew members were F.S. E. E. Mittell Sgt. J. P. Hayes Sgt. K. Yuill Sgt. H. C. Beatty. F/Sgt. Kemp¿s brother, Kenneth, was killed Aug. 17, 1944, at age 24, while serving a s Bomb Aimer in 405 Sqn while on a raid to Stettin, Germany. He is buried in the Fovrfelt Cemetery, Esbjerg, Denmark. From They Shall Grow Not Old: Les Allison, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc. -
Photo of John Kemp
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Oakville Book of Remembrance
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Oakville Remembers Biography
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Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 2)
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Kemp
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 86 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HEREFORD CEMETERY Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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