Charles Joseph Kemp

A Private with the 4th Battalion, Charles died on 9th of October 1918 aged 39. 

Charles was born at Lowestoft in 1879, a son of Arthur and Emily Kemp. In 1881 his family lived at 4 Wrights Cottages, Beccles Road, Lowestoft. By 1901 they were living at Oulton Street, Oulton, and Charles worked as a bricklayer, possibly with his father. 

Charles married Alruna Bird at Kessingland on 1 September 1904. In 1911 they lived at High Street, Kessingland, and Alruna's address, when Charles died, was Days Cottages, High Street, Kessingland.

Charles enlisted in the Army at Bury Saint Edmunds. He joined the East Kent Regiment, service number G/11580. He was transferred to the Middlesex Regiment, service number G/50907, and posted to the 4th Battalion in France.  

There is no precise information about where, when, or how, Charles was wounded, but given that he is buried at Ribecourt and that the 4th Battalion were at Villers-Pluich, which is close to Ribecourt, from 5 to 7 October, it is likely that he was wounded between those dates, and he died of his wounds on 9 October.