Second Lieutenant Norman Kemp

Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers
Panel reference: Pier and Face 3 C and 3 D.
Date published: 24/11/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/09/1916
Age at death: 21
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Second Lieutenant Norman Kemp, Lancashire Fusiliers, who was killed in action in France on September 9th, was the elder son of Canon and Mrs. Lavers Kemp, of the Rectory, Radcliffe, Lancashire, and was 21 years old. He was educated at Rossall School, near Fleetwood, where he held a mathematical scholarship, and was head of his “house”, captain of the choir and captain of the school hockey team. At the outbreak of the war he was granted a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and had been at the front since May 3rd, 1915. He was wounded in the hand and thigh on December 8th, and was invalided home a second time last April. He was bombing officer for his battalion. He returned to the front on July 14th.