Name
Thomas Harold Kimpton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner/Private
1349A
Australian Field Artillery
43rd Battery, 11th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot III, Row J, Grave 21.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Nottinghamshire County Council Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial, Canberra,
Pre War
Son of Mary Ann (nee HARWOOD) and the late Jonathan KIMPTON.
His parents married 1886 in the Cambridge district. Jonathan died 1902 in the Cambridge district aged 73; Mary died 1946 in the Basford, Notts, district aged 88.
Thomas was born 1897 in Cambridge.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Cambridge, with his father and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a factory hand aged 13, he lived in Netherfield, Notts, with his widowed mother and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He attested 21 August 1915 at Brisbane, Queensland: a messenger aged 19, 5’4½” tall, Methodist, of Brisbane; his next-of-kin was his mother of Burton Joyce, Notts.
He embarked on H.M.A.T. Suffolk 30 November 1915 from Sydney; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
