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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 98

A Great War 1917 'Ypres' M.C. Group of Five to Lieutenant-Colonel R.W. Kemp, Gloucestershire Home Guard, Late Machine Gun Corps and Royal Fusiliers
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved 'Lieut. R.W. Kemp. Machine Gun Corps. St. Julien. Ypres. Sepr. 1917.'
b) 1914-15 Star (6358 Pte. R.W. Kemp. R. Fus:)
c) British War and Victory Medals (Major R.W. Kemp.)
d) Defence Medal, good very fine, with fitted case for the Great War awards, the lid embossed 'Major R.W. Kemp Machine Gun Corps' (5)

M.C. London Gazette 27.10.1917 T./2nd Lt. Reginald Walter Kemp, M.G. Corps
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in an attack. He had to advance through a heavy enemy barrage in order to engage his targets, but by his skill and judgment he accomplished this without casualties. The gun positions were heavily shelled, but by his coolness and example he inspired his men to keep their guns firing. It was largely due to his quick grasp of the situation that enemy counter-attacks were broken up.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Walter Kemp, M.C., born Bristol, April 1892; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, and served during the Great War with the 19th Battalion on the Western Front from 14.11.1915; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps, 26.5.1916; awarded the Military Cross for gallantry at Ypres, September 1917; promoted Lieutenant, 26.3.1918; Major, 5.4.1919; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 8.12.1942, and served as Colonel of the 11th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Gloucestershire Home Guard.

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