Individual Details
Commander Surgeon Humphrey de Bohun Kempthorne RN
(1907 - 23 Oct 1943)
Events
| Birth | 1907 | India | |||
| Marriage | Abt Dec 1936 | Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - Susan Eastlake Lamplough | |||
| Military service | Bet 1939 and 1943 | WW2 | |||
| Death | 23 Oct 1943 | WWII CWGC - Bay of Biscay; Killed in action, Bretagne, France |  |
Families
| Spouse | Susan Eastlake Lamplough (1916 - 1987) |
| Child | Sally Ley Kempthorne (1939 - 2012) |
| Child | Shirley Anne "Shan" Kempthorne (1942 - ) |
| Father | Henry Ernest Kempthorne (1865 - 1931) |
| Mother | Sybil Henrietta Devereux (1874 - 1955) |
| Sibling | Muriel Gertrude "Peggy" Kempthorne (1903 - 1966) |
| Sibling | 2nd Lt Edward Frederick Ley "Teddy" Kempthorne (1904 - 1942) |
| Sibling | Henry Ernest Kempthorne (1908 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Sybil Margaret "Domini" Kempthorne (1912 - 2005) |
| Sibling | Robert Godfrey Kempthorne (1917 - 1955) |
Notes
Death
KEMPTHORNE, HUMPHREY De BOHUNRank: Commander Surgeon
Date of Death: 23/10/1943
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
H.M.S. Charybdis
Panel Reference
Panel 78, Column 1.
Memorial PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Henry Ernest Kempthorne and of Henrietta Sybil Kempthorne (nee' Devereux); husband of Susan Eastlake Kempthorne, of Alverstoke, Hampshire. D.M. (Oxon.), M.B., B.Ch., D.O.M. S.
Surgeon Commander Humphrey de Bohun Kempthorne of Lincoln College, Oxford. One of four hundred sailors who were drowned when their ship HMS Carbydis was hit by two torpedoes while escorting a convoy of merchant ships near the Channel Islands on 23rd October 1943.