| Surname: | Kemp |
| Initials: | W G |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/12970 |
| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1)France, 21/2/1917. Formerly Pte. 2 County of London Yeomanry. No. 3297. Extract from the Aberdeen Evening Express, 25/4/1918. This article is in the form of an advert to Phosferine and shows a road with troops marching and resting on the road with a convoy of lorries in the centre, in the centre is a small picture of L/Cpl Kemp. LANCE CORPORAL W G KEMP, MILTARY POLICE, BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. "You may not be aware that to make our advances go smoothly, the whole of the traffic, munitions of war of every sort, men, food, fodder, etc., has to be policed very often under fire, indeed in a big advance heavy shelling is the rule rather than the exception. There is consequently a double strain on the nerves and physique, and as a Military Policeman myself, I can assure you that at first it used to knock me up so much that I couldn't carry on for very long spells at a time. When 'resting' one day I asked the Sergeant how he managed to keep so fit (he won the Military Medal and bar, so his nerves are evidently alright), and he told me that his good health was due to regular use of phosferine. Of course, I wan't long after that in taking it myself and all felt better at once, indeed the benefits were so great that since that time I have made it a rule that, wherever my duties take me, I'm never without my bottle of Phosferine and have not had a touch of indigestion, sleeplessness, nervous lassitude, or other bodily disorder which accompany continuous strain on the system. I think every soldier ought to know how good Phosferine is - the best for a man on Active Service are the Tablets, I may say. " This resourceful Lance Corporal attributes his unfailing fitness to the fact that Phosferine always ensures his system the extra nervous vitality to cope with all the "emergency" work which ordinarily would cause his collapse - Phosferine enables the nerve organisms to provide the additional force required to outlast the special efforts demanded by his duties. |