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Henry Kirk was born in Beverley the 31 Jan 1899 and baptised at St Mary’s Church on 22 Feb 1899, the son of William Kirk, cowkeeper and milkman, and Mary (nee Warters) they married in 1896. The family lived in Riding Fields (now the Cherry Tree Estate) and later moved into Beverley and lived at 101 Walkergate. Henry attended St Nicholas’s School.
Private Henry Kirk, aged 19, was killed in action on 4 Jun 1918. He was serving in the 10th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, in the vicinity of Auchonvilliers and Beaumont Hamel in France. Henry’s body was not recovered and he is commemorated at the Pozieres Memorial on the Somme. The Beverley Guardian of 10 May 1919 claimed Henry “died as a prisoner of war on or since 4 Jun 1918” which suggests that he had been captured by the Germans and had subsequently died of wounds. Henry was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Henry is remembered today on the Hengate War memorial, the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster and on St Mary’s Roll of Honour.
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