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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 210

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. E. Asia 1945-46 (Lt. Col. G. M. Kempe. Gen. List.), good very fine

George Marshall Kempe was born on 16 February 1907 at Salisbury, Wiltshire and was educated at Bradfield College. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in 1930 into in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry (25th Armoured Car Company), Royal Tank Corps. During the Second World War he served with the British North Africa Force from July-December 1943 and the Central Mediterranean Force until April 1945 whereupon he proceeded for further service in India and later the South-East Asia campaign.

During that campaign he was an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel for 20th Brigade, 20th Indian Division, Claims and Hiring Officer, ALFSEA, HQ. 12 September-31 December 1945.

Kempe was promoted Major in the 11th Hussars on 1 December 1947 and relinquished his commission - as Lieutenant-Colonel - in 1952 due to disability. Kempe was twice married, to Josephine Johns at Paddington, London in 1932 and Celia O'Reilly at Midhurst, Sussex in 1951. Kempe, who was a keen countryman, died in December 1985; sold together with copied research including Service Record.


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£290

Starting price
£130