Kelsey, Henry Harold, son of Henry George Kelsey, of St. John's Wood; b. June 30, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (H); left Aug. 1899; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1905; in practice in St. James's Street, Piccadilly.
Kelsey, Leon de Barr, only son of Richard and Annie Kelsey, of South Kensington; b. March 3, 1884; adm. April 28, 1898 (H); left July 1901; studied architecture for six years and subsequently entered his father's business; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. April 22, 1915; 2nd Lieut. 23rd (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. June 11, 1915; went out to the western front Sept. 24, 1915; killed in action between Guinchy and Fiers Sept. 16, 1916; unm.
KEMP, REGINALD, only son of Thomas Richardson Kemp QC, Queen’s Gate Terrace, South Kensington, barrister, and Emily Jane Catherine Elizabeth Colmar, eldest dau. of Charles James Plumptre, Hamilton Terrace, St. John’s Wood, barrister; b. 13 May 1866; adm. 27 May 1880 (H); left Dec 1883; adm. Middle Temple 30 Oct 1884, called to bar 22 Jun 1887; South-Eastern Circuit; Coroner for West Middlesex 1915 -; JP Middlesex 1907; m. 29 Mar 1894 Bertha, youngest dau. of Abram Augustus Flint, Uttoxeter, Staffs., Coroner for Derbyshire; d. 3 Mar 1943.
Kendall, David, son of Guy Kendall, HM Univ. Coll. Sch., and Ada, d. of J. Sampson, solicitor, of Withington, Manchester; b. 24 Feb. 1913; adm. May 1927 (H); left Apr. 1929; Oriel Coll. Oxf., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA 1945; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1936; BM 1936, DM 1945; consult. neurologist SW Metropolitan Hosp. Board, St George's Hosp., SW Thames RHA, and DHSS; FRCP 1972; a contributor to BMJ and The Lancet; m. 6 Mar. 1937 Wilfrida Laura, d. of Arthur Stanley Lawson of Quebec; d. 31 Dec. 2000.
Kent, Cecil, son of Charles Alston Kent, of St. John's Wood, secretary to Trinity House; b. Sept. 25, 1883; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (H); left July 1902; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1902; B.A. 1905; served in Great War I; temp. Lieut. R.N.V.R. Dec. 21, 1914; Lieut. Commander Sept. 19, 1917; author of The Story of the Tests in England (1934); d. April 14, 1942.
Kent, George Francis Nelson, son of George John Kent of Bexhill-on-Sea and Florence Edith, d. of William Henry Kearney of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone; b. 21 Oct. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left Dec. 1924; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. 1926; m. 22 May 1947 Elena Eloisa, d. of Paul Theodore Schmidt, Freiherr von und zu Balensi, of Vienna; d. 31 Mar. 1993.
Kerans, Arthur Lees, son of Thomas George Kerans, M.R.C.P. (I.), of Hyde Park, by Jessie, daughter of Crawford Allen, of Kilconnell, County Galway, Ireland; b. May 22, 1874; adm. April 24, 1890 (H); left March 1891; served in France Aug. 1916-Sept. 1919, first as Capt. 3rd Batt. Manchester Regt. and afterwards transferred to the Labour Corps as Salvage Officer at Etaples; was invalided home as Major; m. Nov. 19, 1910, Ada, daughter of Joseph Osborne Magrini, of Florence, Italy.
Keymer, Ronald Cooper, brother of Kenneth Cooper Keymer (qv); b. 1 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left fuly 1928; D. J. Keymer & Co., advertising agents, 1929-39; RAOC 1939-46 (Lieut.-Col.), despatches (Middle East) June 1943, OBE (Burma) Jan. 1946; dir. Sudan Mercantile Group 1946, man. dir. 1950-63; CBE 1963; Univ. of Edinburgh, Dip. African Studies 1964; hospital admin. Kenya 1966, S. Africa 1970-3; a Church of Scotland missionary, Vice-Pres. CMS; m. 23 Jan. 1947 Mary Rae Gray MBE MB ChB, d. of Thomas Gilfillan Gray, insurance agent; d. 29 July 2003.
KIMBER, JABEZ WILLIAM, son of Thomas Kimber, Burfield Hall, Wymondham, Norfolk, and Bonchurch Road, London, cashier, and Louisa --- (1881 Census); b. 2 Aug 1864; adm. from Marlborough Coll. 22 Jan 1880 (H); left Dec 1881; a clerk, Norwich Union Life Insurance Co. [mother’s surname perhaps Clifford (IGI)]
Kiralfy, Dennis Maurice Gerald, son of Gerald Archibald Kiralfy MBE and Margaret Milner, d. of John Milner Harker; b. 19 Mar. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left Dec. 1930; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935; swam and played water polo against Oxford 1936; Brit. Aviation Insurance Co. 1936-9; Dept. of Civil Aviation Air Ministry 1939; FO RAFVR 1938; killed on active service 1 Jan. 1941.
Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy was born at Kensington, London on the 19th of March 1913 the only son of Gerald Archibald Kiralfy MBE, an architect, and Margaret Milner (nee Harker) Kiralfy of 9, Addison Crescent, London, later of Oak Grove, Churt in Surrey. He was christened at the Church of St John the Baptist, Kensington on the 3rd of June 1913. He was educated at Linton House School from 1921 to July 1926 and at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1926 to December 1930. He matriculated for the City and Guilds Engineering College at South Kensington in September 1931 and was accepted as a student member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the 17th of November 1931. He resigned his membership on the 2nd of January 1933.
He matriculated for Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1932 where he achieved a BA in 1936. He represented Cambridge University at swimming at Wembley against Oxford University on the 27th of June 1936 and also was also a member of the University at Water Polo team in 1936. He was on the staff of the British Aviation Insurance Company from 1936 to 1939 when he left to join the Department of Civil Aviation Department at the Air Ministry where he was appointed as a Junior Operations Officer in the Directorate of Operational Services.
He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Reserve of Air Force Officers on the 22nd of September 1936 and was promoted to Flying Officer on the 22nd of March 1938. He resigned his commission in order to accept a commission on the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve with the rank of Pilot Officer on the 20th of October 1938 and was promoted to Flying Officer from the same date, with seniority from the 22nd of March 1938.
Dennis Kiralfy took off from RAF Bircham Newton in Hudson Mk I T9287 for a transit flight to a satellite airfield where the aircraft was to drop off three airmen and then continue on for an orientation flight of the general area. The aircraft was flying at low level near to the satellite airfield when its port wing hit a barn at Barn Field, North Street, Longham in Norfolk. The aircraft crashed into a ploughed field at 2.48pm where it caught fire, killing all on board.
The crew was
Flying Officer Henry Edward Middleton Featherstone (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Charles George Gilder (Air Gunner)
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Meller (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Robert Arthur Plowright (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Roy McKenzie Mansell (3rd Pilot)
Pilot Officer John Buttemer Allen (2nd Pilot)
Flying Officer Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy (4th Pilot)
Aircraftman 1st Class George Alexander Meridew (Air Gunner)
His father received the following telegram dated the 2nd of January 1941: - “Deeply regret to inform you that your son Flying Officer Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy is reported to have lost his life as the result of an aircraft accident on January 1st 1941. Letter follows. The Air Council express their profound sympathy.”
An inquiry into the accident concluded that: -“All the occupants were killed and the exact cause of the accident will never be fully established. The pilot was very experienced and had a reputation for steadiness and reliability, the error of judgement that he made with such tragic results is in this case almost inexplicable. The pilot’s instructions were to drop 3 airmen at the satellite aerodrome to work on an aircraft which was urgently required, then to take 2 new pilots round the district to show them various landmarks, the situation of the satellite and the orientation of the aerodrome generally.”
His funeral took place on the 7th of January 1941.
He is buried at St Alban’s Church, Hindhead.