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Son of Stanley Heber Franklin Kemp and Gertrude Maidment Kemp, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
The Toronto Star January 23, 1945, page 8
The account of the loss of this crew is taken from www.lostbombers.co.uk:
Lancaster ND-593 which had just been delivered to 100 (RAF) Sqn, replaced the aircraft which had been badly damaged a few nights previously. The crew took off at 1830 from Grimsby but at 2111 they returned overhead the base due to the pilot being taken ill. The crew was advised to jettison part of the fuel, but at 2145 a radio message indicated that problems had arisen. Instructions were transmitted to fly 60 miles out to sea and jettison the bomb load. The Lancaster turned out to sea and disappeared without trace.
F/O Kemp was the only Canadian on board.
The 22-yr old pilot, F/S Francis Wadge, had shown quite remarkable fortitude and skill when he brought their Lancaster home from Stuttgart with almost six feet of the port wing torn away and with damage to both port engines. His immediate DFM was Gazetted 14Mar44
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Harold Leon Kemp in uniform.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
From the Toronto Star February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
From the Toronto Star January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
This outdoor plaque is located at the “Old Vic” building, part of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. The decorative motif at the top shows the Victoria University crest, with motto in Latin: “ABEUNT STUDIA IN MORES”. The plaque is inscribed: “THEY WERE VALIANT IN LIFE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE STUDENTS OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1939-1945. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE BOARD OF REGENTS AND DEDICATED OCTOBER 13TH, 1953”. There are 79 names inscribed in bas relief. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations, University of Toronto.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp
From the Toronto Telegram January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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The Toronto Star January 23, 1945, page 8 The account of the loss of this crew is taken from www.lostbombers.co.uk: Lancaster ND-593 which had just been delivered to 100 (RAF) Sqn, replaced the aircraft which had been badly damaged a few nights previously. The crew took off at 1830 from Grimsby but at 2111 they returned overhead the base due to the pilot being taken ill. The crew was advised to jettison part of the fuel, but at 2145 a radio message indicated that problems had arisen. Instructions were transmitted to fly 60 miles out to sea and jettison the bomb load. The Lancaster turned out to sea and disappeared without trace. F/O Kemp was the only Canadian on board. The 22-yr old pilot, F/S Francis Wadge, had shown quite remarkable fortitude and skill when he brought their Lancaster home from Stuttgart with almost six feet of the port wing torn away and with damage to both port engines. His immediate DFM was Gazetted 14Mar44
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Harold Leon Kemp in uniform.
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer Harold Leon Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This outdoor plaque is located at the “Old Vic” building, part of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. The decorative motif at the top shows the Victoria University crest, with motto in Latin: “ABEUNT STUDIA IN MORES”. The plaque is inscribed: “THEY WERE VALIANT IN LIFE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE STUDENTS OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1939-1945. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE BOARD OF REGENTS AND DEDICATED OCTOBER 13TH, 1953”. There are 79 names inscribed in bas relief. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations, University of Toronto.
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 351 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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