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KIRBY Arthur Maurice Lieut

Catalogue reference: SKR/DAT/IP/20866

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Title
KIRBY Arthur Maurice Lieut
Date
2000-2024
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Surname: KIRBY;

Forename(s): Arthur Maurice;

Initials: AM;

Rank: Lieut;

Born in: Maunby, Thirsk;

Resided in: Northallerton;

Previous Battalion: 5 of;

Previous Regiment: DLI;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 207 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 25-Sep-1917;

Other Data: born 23/5/1898 at Maunby, Thirskl, Yorks. Father Robert Kirby (farmer) and Mother: Mary Isabella (nee Nesbit)
educ: Northallerton Gr Sch. Occ: Student.
Served as 3061 2 Coy 2/4 Yorks Regt at Cramlington from 20/11/1914 - 23/07/1915
joined 207 Coy from Base 7/6/1917 - war diary
see war diary 207 Coy for description of death - killed by shellfire
Estate £137/12/4d
Brass Memorial Plaque: St Peters Church, Ostmotherly, N Yorks;

Other Notes: KIRBY, Lieutenant, ARTHUR MAURICE, 5th Bn. Durham Light Infantry attd. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 25th September 1917. Age 19. Son of Robert and Mary Isabella Kirby, of Thimbleby Grange, Northallerton. Panel 128 to 131 and 162 and 162A Tyne Cot Memorial - Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.;

Related National Archives files: WO374/39860;

END OF RECORD.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
Language
English
Creator(s)
Graham Sacker
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