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• Name KEMPTON
• Initials WJ
• First name WILLIAM JOHN
• Place of birth Gough
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Family Son of George M. and Mary Kempton, of Red Range, New South Wales.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Annadale, New South Wales on 6 June 1916
• Service number 2343
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 34th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 9th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Sydney on 17 October 1916; to France on 26 April 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on thigh at n°17 CCS
• Date of death 17 October 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - E - 19

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