Gordon Kemp, a former student of John Stocker school and living in Savile Road in St Thomas, played at least two reserve games for Exeter City in the 1938/39 and 1939/40 seasons. He had previously appeared for St Mark's. 

Serving in the 8th Army in the Second World War he died in Chelsea in March 1945 from an illness related to receiving a shrapnel injury and is recognised as a war death by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 

He is also recorded in the Killed in Action section of this archive.