Private Robert Kirkman, 84255
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- Unit - Labour Corps
- Section - 141st Company
- Date of Birth - 1886
- Died - 26/12/1917
- Age - 30
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Mr and Mrs W. C. Kirkman of Barlestone, Leics., and the husband of Miriam Kirkman. Other sources show his place of residence as Handsworth, Warwks.
Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Coalville Times article - Friday January 11th, 1918
LOCAL CASUALTIES
Mr W. C. Kirkman, J.P. of Barlestone, has received news that his son, Pte. Robert Charles Kirkman, of the Northants Regiment, has been killed in action. He was 32 years of age, married, and before the war was in the grocery trade at Birmingham, though he was well-known at Barlestone, where he was born, and he was an old boy of the Bosworth Grammar School. He was working in a labour battalion and a letter from his platoon sergeant states that he was killed by a shell. His wife resides at Birmingham.
Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby. 6/1/2018
- Conflict - World War I
- Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
- Burial Place - V G 12, Oxford Road Cemetery
- Unit - Labour Corps
- Former Unit - Norfolk Regiment
- Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
- Burial Commemoration - Oxford Road Cem., Ypres, Belgium
- Born - Barlestone, Leics
- Enlisted - Nuneaton, Warwks
- Place of Residence - 82 Belgrave Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
- Memorial - BARLESTONE CEM. MEM., LEICS
- Memorial - ST. GILES' CHURCH, BARLESTONE, LEICS
