Arthur Leslie Kemp (SN 70) born in Sydney, was a 19 year old plumber and gas fitter when he enlisted in Melbourne on August 17th 1914. With the 8th Infantry Battalion, he embarked aboard the Benalla on October 19th and sailed to Egypt before the landing at Gallipoli on April 25th 1915 . In May he suffered a dislocated knee which led to him being returned to Australia aboard the Hororata. In May 1917 he returned to Egypt and was attached to the Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance with whom he served until pleurisy caused his early return to Australia aboard the Port Darwin. He disembarked at Sydney on August 17th 1918 and was discharged medically unfit on September 3rd.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Leslie A. Kemp.