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Sgt. William Dunstan Kemp
British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Chilwell
(d.9th April 1917)
My great grandad William Dunstan Kemp was born in Bideford, Devon in 1889. He lived in Chilwell and fought in the Boer War and in the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire (Duke of Edinburgh) Regiment. He was a frontiers man on a horse who rode behind enemy lines collecting information. On 9th April 1917 he rode behind enemy lines at the Battle of Arras and was shot through the heart.