 In July he made his second appearance for the Gentlemen, this time at Lord's, and struck 59 in the first innings,
while at the end of the summer he represented an England XI against the New Zealanders at Folkestone.Kimpton played ten games in 1938, including two on the joint Oxford and Cambridge Universities tour of Jamaica in August, but found little success, making only two half-centuries and averaging under 24.He played no cricket in 1939, and with the outbreak of the Second World War he returned to Australia to join the RAAF as a fighter pilot.