Henry Ernest Kirk
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Henry Ernest Kirk was born in Ranby, Notts and registered at East Retford in 1884. His parents were Richard and Sarah Kirk who, over their life had 5 children. A couple of years after his birth, Henry and his family arrived in Worksop and were living at 25 Cheapside. Their father became a veg. and potato dealer with the elder children working as labourers for him. By 1911 the family were living at 6 Garden Row, Newgate Street, Worksop and as Richard was absent, Henry was head of the house. Apart from his mother and two younger brothers, Charles and Thomas, he also had a female ‘visitor’ called Harriet Roebuck who Henry married 5 years later at Worksop. The couple then lived at the same address as letters were received at 6 Garden Row, Newgate Street, reporting the death of Henry in 1918. Richard, Henry's father died in 1908.
Pte. Henry Ernest Kirk Worksop Guardian 5 April 1918 Much uncertainty is felt regarding the fate of Pte. Henry Ernest Kirk, Kings Liverpool’s, husband of Mrs. Kirk, 6, Garden Row, Worksop. Mrs. Kirk received a letter from a Chaplain in France, dated March 16th, which reads:- “Dear Mrs. Kirk,-You will have heard by this time of the death of your husband, Pte. H. Kirk. I must express my sympathy with you in your loss. Your husband was killed at the post of duty, practically instantaneously, while on a working party, not far behind the front line. He was killed by shell fire. It is sad for those left behind, but we must remember that there is a world to come. We buried him in a cemetery in a village just behind the line. The Battalion are erecting a wooden cross, and the Graves Registration Commission registered the position of the grave.-Yours truly, Donald Murray, C.F.” This is all the intelligence that has been received, and further information is anxiously awaited. Pte. Kirk has three children. In pre-war times he worked at Manton Colliery. One of his brothers, Pte. Charles Edward Kirk is lying dangerously wounded in a hospital at Lichfield.
Formerly 41722, Notts And Derby Regiment and now remembered on the Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Research by Colin Dannatt
