BORN PATRINGTON, 1871. SON OF MATTHEW KIRKWOOD AND FRANCES MOSS, OF ONTARIO, CANADA (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A JOINER BY TRADE.
HE MARRIED LOUISA STATHER, IN HULL, IN 1897. THEY LIVED AT 3 NEWPORT TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/01/1915. TRANSFERRED TO THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 44. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MEMORIAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, MATTHEW. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, AT YPRES.
First name:
TALBOT
Regiment:
Military Number:
8288
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
44
3 NEWPORT TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
