Allen Mortimer Kemp

Forenames

Allen Mortimer AWMM

Surname

Kemp AWMM

Service number

• WWI 12/2553 AWMM
• WWI 1/684 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 21 Grosvenor Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Richard Kemp (father), Paparata, Bombay, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Samoa AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 12/2553 AWMM
• WWI 1/684 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Private AWMM 3rd (Auckland) Regiment AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 13 Jun 1915-24 Jul 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 24 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Capture details

WW1 POW - France AWMM
2 Oct 1917 AWMM

Medical notes

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of wounds 13/2/1917 as POW AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Allen Kemp was the son of Richard Kemp, of Park Estate Rd., Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand. Also served in Samoa.

The Chronicles of the NZEF, March 14 1917 that the name of 12/2553 Lce-Cpl. A. Kemp, 1st Auckland Infantry Battalion, appears on a recent list as "believed to be prisoner of war", but no communication has yet been heard.

Next of Kin: Mr R. Kemp, Papakura, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

13 Feb 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Cemetery

Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France AWMM XVI. E. 1. AWMM

Memorial name

• Alfriston Brookby War Memorial, Alfriston, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18056191
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Alfriston Brookby War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/alfriston-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/586255/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/586255
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 24. Maunganuian : one of the many unofficial journals of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. (1915). At sea: Fifth Reinforcements. Printe by W.F. Forster and Co., Albany.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
  Death Certificate
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 388
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• McGeehan, Elizabeth B. Autographed wartime souvenir publication, 'Samoa' [ca. 1914 - 1915]. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library- Tāmaki Paenga Hira. MS-2004-43.
  Includes signature
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Prisoners of War Taken by the Enemy during (the) Period August 1914 to November 1918 [Listed by Surname in Alphabetical Order], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R26112295)
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-