Individual Details
2nd Lt Edward Frederick Ley "Teddy" Kempthorne
(8 Nov 1904 - 9 Aug 1942)
Events
| Birth | 8 Nov 1904 | New Zealand | |||
| Military service | Bet 1939 and 1942 | WW2 | |||
| Military | 15 Nov 1941 | Rank: 2nd Lieutenant - Wellington, New Zealand | |||
| Death | 9 Aug 1942 | WWII CWGC - Alam Nayil Ridge (El Alamein), El Alamein, Egypt |  | ||
| Burial | El Alamein War Cemetery, - XXX.C.4, El Alamein, Egypt |
Families
| Father | Henry Ernest Kempthorne (1865 - 1931) |
| Mother | Sybil Henrietta Devereux (1874 - 1955) |
| Sibling | Muriel Gertrude "Peggy" Kempthorne (1903 - 1966) |
| Sibling | Commander Surgeon Humphrey de Bohun Kempthorne RN (1907 - 1943) |
| Sibling | Henry Ernest Kempthorne (1908 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Sybil Margaret "Domini" Kempthorne (1912 - 2005) |
| Sibling | Robert Godfrey Kempthorne (1917 - 1955) |
Notes
Death
KEMPTHORNE, EDWARD FREDERICK LEYRank: Second Lieutenant
Service No: 5105
Date of Death: 09/08/1942
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry 25th Bn.
Grave Reference XXX. C. 4.
Cemetery EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Henry Ernest and Sybil Kempthorne.
Second Lieutenant Edward Kempthorne of the 25th Battalion New Zealand Infantry, formally of Exeter College, Oxford, who was killed in action on 9th August 1942, while probing German defences at Ruweisat Ridge three weeks before the battle of EL Alamein. (Pictured with his Oxford University rowing medal and three war service medals).