Kemp, Kenneth Reginald Flint, only son of Reginald Kemp (q.v.); b. April 17, 1895; adm. April 29, 1909 (A); left Easter 1910 on account of ill health; went to the Chelsea School of Art; showed much artistic promise; was elected an Assoc. of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1917, and three of his pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1916 and 1918; went to the western front with the Munro Corps attached to the Anglo-French Hospital Ccmmittee as a driver Nov. 9, 1915; was slightly gassed near Nieuport in April 1917, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for saving life under fire April 25, 1917; returned home and obtained a commission in the R. A. S. C. as 2nd Lieut. Aug. 13, 1917, but was relegated to Home Depots on account of his health; d. of influenza Oct. 18, 1918; unm.
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