BORN FLAMBOROUGH 1864. SON OF RICHARD & MARIA KEMP, OF 6 BOTANIC PLACE, STAINIFORTH PLACE, HULL. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH ANN (KNAGGS), LIVED AT MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, BEVERLEY ROAD. HE HAD SERVED IN THE RESRVES FOR 20 YEARS AND HAD THE LONG SERVICE MEDAL. HE SERVED IN THE ANTARTIC SHIP “NIMROD” AND HAD BEEN ON A NUMBER OF WILSON LINE SHIPS. HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON 17/05/1917, AGED 53.
HE LEFT A WIDOW AND SIX CHILDREN. HIS SONS, PRIVATE, JAMES KEMP, 4TH EYR, SERVED WITH COLONEL SHAW. HIS OTHER SONS, FRED AND JOHN WERE ALSO SERVING AT SEA. GEORGE KEMP’S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/06/1917. * HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2.
SS ‘CITO’: Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co; 1899; Earle´s Co.; 819 tons; 219.1×30.1×16.5; 144 nhp; 9.5 knots; triple expansion engines. The steamship Cito was intercepted by German torpedo boat destroyers S-53 and V-73, 20 miles East of Noordhinder lightship on May 17th, 1917. The destroyers sank the steamship with gunfire. The captain and ten of the crew were killed.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS ‘CITO’
DONOVAN, MICHAEL WELLS MORTIMER (24), Second Mate, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of Frederick Daniel and Henrietta Donovan; husband of Nellie Donovan (nee Westoby), of 229, Albert Avenue, Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HAIRE, JOHN THOMAS (37), Able Seaman, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of Elizabeth Haire, and the late Galen Haire; husband of Mary Elizabeth Haire (nee Gardam), of 31, Glasgow St., Hull. Born at Beverley, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HESLEWOOD, EDWARD (15), Assistant Steward, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of Amy Heslewood, of 1 Goddard Avenue, Newland, Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
KEMP, GEORGE RICHARD (53), Able Seaman, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of the late Richard and Maria Kemp; husband of Elizabeth Ann Kemp (Nee Knaggs), of 6, Botanic Place, Staniforth Place, Hull. Born at Flamborough, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
KINGSTON, R , Fireman, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Memorial: Noordwijk General Cemetery
MANSON, WILLIAM (42), Able Seaman, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Husband of May Ann Manson (nee Woodcock), of 6, Jane St., Hull. Born at Mossbank, Shetland Isles, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
MEHEUX, ADOLPHUS DONALSON (40), Donkeyman, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of John and Mary Meheux; husband of Agnes Meheux (nee Mawson), of 45, Waverley St., Hull. Born at Sierre Leone, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
ORME, GEORGE WATSON (56), Master, Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Husband of Clementina Orme, of 11, Sunningdale Rd., New Brighton, Cheshire, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
OSBORNE, F C (18), Wireless Operator, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of Frank Osborne, of Oak Villa, Glan Conway, North Wales. Born at Manchester, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
STEPHENSON, ROBERT (36), Boatswain, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of the late Robert and Kate Stephenson; husband of Annie Elizabeth Stephenson (nee Megginson), of 1, Victoria Place, Waverley St., Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
THORNTON, ROBERT (45), Able Seaman, S.S. Cito, Mercantile Marine, †17/05/1917, Son of the late Robert and Sarah Elizabeth Thornton; husband of Caroline Thornton (nee Sherar), of 57, Blake S
