Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Memorial – 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

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

Oakville Remembers Biography

Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 2)