BORN HULL 1886. SCULCOATES. SON OF THE LATE FRED KIRMAN (1856-1915) & JANE ELIZABETH BOGG (1865-1903), OF HULL.
MARRIED AT HULL SCULCOATES, ON 23/08/1910. HE WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER, LIVING AT 8, SYDEHAM TERACE, SEATON STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). HIS WIFE ALICE AMELIA KIRMAN, ALSO LIVED AT 17 COBDEN COTTAGE, WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY HAD TWO SONS, FRED AND GEORGE, WHO BOTH SERVED IN WW2. ALSO A DAUGHTER, JESSIE, WHO SADLY DIED IN INFANCY IN 1915.
FRED KIRMAN, WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER FOR JOHN GOODS AND SON, HULL. HE HAD ALSO BEEN A TERRITORIAL SOLDIER, WITH THE EAST RIDING, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, SINCE 27/05/1910. HE JOINED THE SAME REGIMENT, IN HULL, ON 04/08/1914. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 10 INCHES TALL, 38 INCH CHEST SIZE, GOOD VISION AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. HE DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNG, ON 02/06/1915, AGED 29 AND IS BURIED AT HULL’S HEDON ROAD CEMETERY.
14/01/2025 – Thank You to Fred Kirman, who writes; – Hi Paul, My name is Fredrick George Kirman and my Grandfather Fred Kirman is listed on your Kingston upon Hull Memorial 1914 – 1918 list. It also states that he and his wife Alice Amelia had two sons Fred and George. However for your information, they also had a daughter Jessie E Kirman who was born in Hull in 1914, but unfortunately she died in Hull in 1915. Alice did remarry a few years later to Robert King and the family immigrated to New Zealand around 1922-23. Also, both sons kept their Kirman surname and enlisted in the NZ Army in WWII, and my father George Septimus Kirman (the youngest) was captured in Greece in 1941 and spent four years in POW camps in Austria. Hope this helps. Fredrick Kirman
