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Kenneth Donovan Kemp

In memory of:

Flight Lieutenant Air Bomber Kenneth Donovan Kemp

August 17, 1944
North Sea coast of Sylt Island, Denmark

Military Service


Service Number:

J/12962

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

405 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of John Beverley Oxborough Kemp and Emma Donovan Kemp.

His brother John Beverley Kemp died on July 6, 1944 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Commemorated on Page 351 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

A. 13. 12.

Location:

Esbjerg is a port in south-western Jutland. ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY is about 3 kilometres to the north of the town, off the road to Hjerting, along the Gravlundvej.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Air Bomber Kenneth Donovan Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Air Bomber Kenneth Donovan Kemp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of Kenneth Donovan Kemp– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Service book– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Newspaper clipping– Clipping from the Toronto Star 1945
  • Newspaper clipping– Clipping from the Toronto Star 1945
  • Fovrfelt Cemetery– Story of crash courtesy of Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com
Lancaster III PB239 of 405 Sqn took off 21.15 Gransden Lodge on a mission to attack the port city of Kiel.  

It is believed that PB239 was claimed by a German night fighter and crashed in the North Sea south west of Denmark near the island of Sylt 17/8 1944  killing the whole crew.

Today Pilot F/O Charles H. Fisher and W/OP WO1 Forest D. Billingsley rest in Kiel War Cemetery.

Navigator F/L John S. Bruce RAF, Air Gnr. F/S Joseph W. Carter and F/L Maxwell B. Calhoun DFC have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

After about a week Air Bomber F/Lt Kenneth D. Kemp was washed ashore on the beach near Højer Sluse lock. The Germans left the body on the beach for 6-7 days before they buried it on the spot where it was found.  On 9/1 1946 his remains were disinterred and taken to Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg where he was laid to rest on 10/1-1946.

Flt. Engr. Sgt Eric N. Jolly RAF and Air Gnr. F/O Kenneth A. Nordheimer were found washed ashore on the island of Rømø and were laid to rest in Kirkeby cemetery on 7/9 1944.
  • Oakville Book of Remembrance
  • Oakville Remembers Biography
  • Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 2)

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