Tuesday 1 February 2022

74669 Private Edwin Harrison Kemp, 11/1/1898-3/9/1918.

PRIVATE E. H. KEMP. 

Private Edwin Harrison Kemp, a wellknown Gore lad, has died at sea, word to this effect reaching his parents (Mr and Mrs A. E. Kemp, Gore) on Friday. Private Kemp was born at Gore and was in his 21st year. He received his primary education at the Gore school, and followed this up with a course at the Gore and Waitaki High Schools. Leaving the latter institution, he entered the office of the New Zealand Shipping Company at Dunedin, from whence he enlisted when he reached his 20th birthday. He went into camp in March of this year in the machine gun section of the 40th reinforcements and sailed some time later, but died of influenza on the troopship. Private Kemp was a pleasant, manly lad, and his demise will be regretted by a large circle of friends, while much sympathy is extended to Mr and Mrs Kemp in the death of their only child.   -Southland Times, 29/9/1918.


ANGLICAN CHURCH.

PARISH OF GORE. 

REPORTS FOR THE YEAR.   (excerpt)

Work of the Boys’ Memorial Home. Jn this connection I should like to acknowledge thankfully the gift of £100 from Mr and Mrs A. E. Kemp to endow a cot in memory of their son, Edwin Harrison Kemp, who died aboard the transport conveying the 40th Reinforcements to the war.   -Mataura Ensign, 29/4/1920.


Gore Cemetery.


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