Officers’ steward 2nd class HMS battle cruiser Queen Mary, age 21.
The ship was one of two sunk at the Battle of Jutland 31/5/1916 when a shell detonated the magazine and split the ship in two.
Only 20 of its 1,266 men were rescued.
Only son of Police Inspector Mervyn Roland Kemp, one time of Beckenham Police Station and Harriette Evangeline of 149 Lower Kennington Lane.
Reported BJ 17/6/1916