Elise Kemp

[2] On 20 October 1917, Kemp was treating casualties at a clearing station in Flanders when it was bombed by a German aircraft.

There had been no warning at all beforehand and the bombs landed close to a marquee where the sister, 3 orderlies and 3 patients were killed and other were wounded, two of whom lost their arms.

On 3 November 1917, the British Journal of Nursing recorded Kemp's death as follows: OUR ROLL OF HONOUR.

"Great sorrow has been caused at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, by the news of the death of Sister Elise M. Kemp, of the Territorial Force Nursing Service.

At the time of her death she was working at a Casualty Clearing Station in France, where she was killed instantaneously by the explosion of a bomb.