BORN SOUTHTOWN, SUFFOLK, 24/03/1870. SON OF ROBERT GEORGE KEMP AND HARRIET FEW.
HE MARRIED ON 15/12/1895, ST NICHOLAS CHURCH, GREAT YARMOUTH. HIS WIFE EDITH JAYNE PYE LIVED AT 130 WOODCOCK STREET (1911 CENSUS) & 15, EDEN GROVE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A FISHERMAN. HE SKIPPERED THE HULL TRAWLER “AMEER”. LOST AT SEA, ON 18/03/1916, AGED 46. BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HE LEFT £150 IN HIS WILL, TO HIS WIDOW. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 24/03/1916. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
The British Navy trawler HMT Ameer was sunk on 18th March 1916 by a mine from the German submarine UC-7 (Georg Haag), off Felixstowe. 8 of the crew were killed.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT ‘AMEER’
1. ANGUS, ALEXANDER (28), Engineman (no. 56ES), HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/03/1916, Native of Durban, South Africa. Husband of Minnie Richardson (formerly Angus), of 4, Vine Terrace, Norwood St., Spring Bank, Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
2. BAILEY, WILLIAM ALFRED , Signalman (no. T6/171), HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †18/03/1916, Memorial: Bawdsey (St. Mary) Churchyard
3. BENSON, GEORGE WALTER , Second Hand (no. 73/DA), HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/03/1916, Memorial: Hull Western Cemetery
4. CHRISTIE, WILLIAM (33), Deck Hand (no. 3682/DA), HMT Ameer, Royal Navy, †18/03/1916, Son of Alexander Christie, of 4, Portlethen, Aberdeen, Memorial: Shotley (St. Mary) Churchyard
5. COULTAS, CHARLES (39), Engineman (no. 236ES), HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/03/1916, Son of James Coultas, of Grimsby; husband of Gertrude Alice Coultas, of 34, Blundell Avenue, New Clee, Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
6. KEMP, FREDRICK ROBERT (46), Skipper, HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/03/1916, Husband of Edith Jane Kemp, of 15, Eden Grove, Eastbourne St., Hull, Memorial: Hull Western Cemetery
7. SHELL, ADAM (34), Deck Hand (no. 6708DA), HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/03/1916, Son of Adam and Margaret Shell, of Holy Island; husband of Alice Shell, of 4, Mafeking St., Gateshead, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
8. SMITH, ALFRED ERNEST , Deck Hand (no. 1762DA), HMT Ameer, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/03/1916, Son of Charles Smith, of 11, Dunkirk, West Gate, Sleaford, Lincs, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
