Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookat his good work was appreciated by all." Major, afterwards Lt. Col. Shearman, wrote: "You will be proud to know that he was possessed of great personal courage and his one thought here was his duty and care of the wounded, which he in many cases personally collected. Your son was buried by the Rev. C. S. Ensell, in the cemetery at Ypres. His grave is next that of Lord Charles Nairne, who was killed at the same time." And a colonel of the R.A.M.C. wrote: "Capt. Kinkead was regarded as a daring and fearless soldier, with strikingly attractive qualities, and was immensely popular with the men of the regiment. Over and over again he risked his life in the discharge of his duties in the field." [Illustration: =R. C. G. M. Kinkead.=] =KINNAIRD, HON. DOUGLAS ARTHUR=, Master of Kinnaird, Capt., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest _s._ of Arthur Fitzgerald, 11th Lord Kinnaird, K.T., by his wife, Mary Alma Victoria, dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw, 8th Baronet; _b._ Rossie Priory, Inchture, co. Perth, 20 Aug. 1879; educ. Cheam School, Surrey; Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1901, M.A. 1905); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Scots Guards, 22 May, 1901. and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1904, and Capt. 3 Feb. 1912; transferring to the 2nd Battn. when the 3rd was disbanded; went to Antwerp with his Battn. in the 7th Division; served through the retreat from that place and was killed in action, 23 Oct. 1914, during one of the numerous rearguard actions, to protect the retirement of the Belgian Army. Buried with another officer at Zonnebeke Farm, near Poligne, Belgium; _unm._ Capt. Kinnaird was in the Volunteer Corps at Eton and Cambridge, and travelled much on the Continent to study Art and Literature. In 1906, he went to East Africa for big game shooting, and made a large collection of heads and trophies. He also visited India for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1911. [Illustration: =Douglas Arthur Kinnaird.=] =KINNAIRD, FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Capt., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Francis Henry Kinnaird, of London; _b._ London, 16 March, 1875; educ. privately; obtained a commission in the 4th South Stafford in 1907; passed the School of instruction and qualified as Instructor of Musketry; became Capt. 4 Nov. 1910; went to France 16 March, 1915; was wounded in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915, and died in King Edward's Hospital, London, 10 June, following; buried at Astley, Worcestershire. He _m._ in London, 5 Oct. 1901, Gertrude (16, Titchfield Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W.), dau. of Robert Green, and had a dau.: Mary Gertrude, _b._ 21 Sept. 1904. =KIPLING, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4772 B., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KIRKBY, BERTRAM JAMES=, 1st Writer, 220342, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =KIRBY, HENRY JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8167), S.S. 103966, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KIRBY, JOHN RUSSELL=, Private, No. 2517, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise's Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late John William Kirby, of Ivy House, Wortham, co. Suffolk, Farmer, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Rash; _b._ Wortham, 13 Nov. 1886; educ. Eye Grammar School; was a Motor Bodymaker at Messrs. Barkers & Co., Kensington; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 27 March, 1915, of wounds received at Neuve Chapelle on 10-12 March. Buried at Boulogne; _unm._ =KIRK, ALAN=, Gunner, No. 57708, 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd _s._ of John Robert Kirk, of Belton, near Doncaster, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of John Rookledge; _b._ York, 13 June, 1891; educ. Ackworth Church School, of which his father was head master; joined Pontefract Battn. King's Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), ... 1909; enlisted R.F.A., June, 1909; left for France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. following. Buried midway between Braine and Chessemy; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alan Kirk.=] =KIRK, GERALD=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Alfred Samuel Kirk of Greenwood Leghe, Ingleton, and of Leeds, and the only _s._ by his 2nd wife, Isabella Ann, widow of William Norman Greenwood and dau. of Richardson Balderstone; _b._ Bramley, near Leeds, 14 July, 1883; educ. Ilkley and Pocklington, but after the declaration of war enlisted in the King's Own, 2 Sept. 1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the same, 3 Jan. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres the 5th Battn. of the King's Own were with the Canadians in the great charge on Friday, 23 April, and Lieut. Kirk was severely wounded and died on the night of the following day at Poperinghe. Col. Lord Richard Cavendish wrote: "He was mortally wounded when bravely leading his men against a very strong position of the enemy. Although he had only been in the Battn. a comparatively short time he had endeared himself to us all, and he will be deeply mourned and long remembered. He had proved himself an extremely efficient officer." Capt. Gerald W. Sharpe wrote: "He died a noble and gallant death, leading his platoon across an absolute inferno of shot and shell, he was wounded through the chest by a bullet. Four of his men carried him back to the dressing station where he was made as comfortable as possible and he was the first to be sent off in the motor ambulance." He was buried in the hospital cemetery at Poperinghe. Kirk was the well-known amateur centre half-back, and had played for both Bradford City and Leeds City. He was the first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Conservative Club, and the originator and first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Farmers' Association, etc., and a sidesman at St. Mary's Church. He was also an ardent follower of the Vale of Lune Hounds, an excellent shot, and a keen cricketer and tennis player. He _m._ at Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, 21 April, 1909, Jane, dau. of Edmund Capstick, of Barnoldswick, Burton-on-Lonsdale; _s.p._ [Illustration: =Gerald Kirk.=] =KIRK, RANDAL=, Private, No. 8716, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of the late Bruce Kirk, of Newland, Hull, by his wife, Cecilia (49, Linnaeus Street, Hull), dau. of the late Thomas Clarke, of Goole, and grandson of the late William Kirk, of Hull, Printer; _b._ Hull, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. The Crossley and Porter School, Halifax; was nine years (1900-09) in the Hull Rating Department, Posterngate, and for six years held the rank of Sergt. in the Hull Rifles (Cyclist Corps); joined the 1st Coldstream Guards the day previous to King Edward's death, 1910, and served three years with the Colours; rejoined the battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the German XV Army Corps Hospital at Laon, 27 Sept. 1914, of wounds received i |