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Richard was born in Driffield in 1877, the son of Thomas Kemp (1854-1934), from Bainton, and his wife Jane (1852-1937) from Fridaythorrpe. Thomas is recorded in the 1881 census as a weighman at the Driffield coal depot, where the family also lived. He later became a farm worker in the Long Riston area before moving into Beverley, living at Primrose House, Grovehill Road in 1911 where Thomas is described as a “retired farmer”.
Richard does not appear in the 1891 and 1901 census. On 26 Jun 1906 he married Annie Sanderson at Tickton. Annie was born in 1881. They had four children, and lived in the Newington area of Hull, Richard working as a “salesman” in 1911 and as a “transport worker” by the start of the war. The family had moved to 46 Far Grove, off Norwood, Beverley and after the war the family lived at 34 Norwood.
At the age of 39 Richard enlisted in the army on 9 Jun 1916, he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment as a private but switched to the 19th Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He arrived in France on 5 Oct 1916. In March 1917 he was admitted to the 12th Stationary Hospital with acute nephritis, but then developed pneumonia from which he died on 22 Mar 1917. He is buried at the St Pol Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Richard was awarded the War and Victory Medals. He is commemorated on the Norwood Street Shrone, the Hengate Memorial and on the East Riding Memorial in the Beverley Minster. |