John Thomas Kemp

Died

23 January 1921

Age

Rank

Sergeant

Force

Royal Irish Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

Off Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Died from the wounds he sustained when a bomb was thrown at him by masked men as he returned to his barracks.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died from the wounds he sustained when a bomb was thrown at him by masked men as he returned to his barracks.

Circumstances

Fatally wounded and died of injuries sustained whilst on duty in Armargh on the 14th when a bomb was thrown by two masked men.

Died from the mortal wounds he sustained nine days earlier, while off duty in Armagh, when a bomb was thrown at him by two masked men, near Todd’s Corner, as he returned from Scotch Street to Russell Street Barracks, after paying for a motor car.