Name
Lewis Kempster
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
41316
Bedfordshire Regiment
A Coy. 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. A. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
LOVED BY US ALL GONE TO HIS REST WHEN DUTY CALLED HE GAVE HIS BEST
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, All Saints Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Lewis Kempster was born in 1898 in Berkhamsted, the son of Frederick and Sarah Kempster. and baptised on 13 August 1899 at Great Berkhamsted. He was one of 12 children, although one had died by 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 10 Red Lion Yard, Berkhamsted where his father was working as a greengrocer. By 1911 they had moved to 38 Shrublands Avenue, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
Lewis enlisted in Bedford and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, serving with A Company, 2nd Battalion.
He was killed in action in France on 22 August 1918, aged 19 during the Battle of Albert, and is buried in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £6 13s and pay owing of £13 13s 2d and the pension of 7 shillings a week. She ordered his headstone inscription while living at, 38 Shrublands Avenue, Berkhamsted, Herts., it reads: "LOVED BY US ALL GONE TO HIS REST WHEN DUTY CALLED HE GAVE HIS BEST".
N.B. the name Lewis is sometimes spelled as Louis.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
