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Pte. Alexander Reynolds Kemp
British Army 2/7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:2 Longdyke, Falkirk
(d.30th July 1918)
I have only recently discovered that my grandfather had a brother, my namesake, Alexander Kemp who fought and died in the Great War. He joined up with 2/7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the 12th December 1915 at Stenhousemuir and was mobilised in January 1916. On 13th of March 1917 he was admitted to Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, but one month later enjoyed a brief furlough before returning to duty with C Coy. He was later posted to 1/7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and on the 11th of June 1917 proceeded with the Expeditionary Force to France. Arriving in Dieppe, he spent several months behind the lines before proceeding to the front on the 19th of April 1918. Sadly, he was killed in action only weeks later on 30th of July 1918 in Flanders. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
