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1880 Jul 6 Born Yorkshire
1881 census with family at Kent St West, Hull
1891 with family at Hull
1901 census at Withernsea, Yorkshire
1907 Jan 15 Married Monica France Margaret Leitch
1911 census A boarder in Birmingham
Enlists in 23rd Royal Fusiliers - the Sportsman's Battalion. 4,987 men served on the effective strength of the 23rd Royal Fusiliers after it proceeded overseas to France on 15th November 1915. 3,241 became casualties, of whom 594 died and another 350 were missing. It was originally recruited at the Hotel Cecil in London by Mrs E. Cunliffe-Owen, with a special War Office dispensation to form a unit from men up to the age of 45, who were then over the formal enlistment age, but who were fit and hard because they were sportsmen. In the first year while the Battalion was training at Hornchurch, it also had a huge turnover of men who received commissions in other units, not counted in the totals above. For more detail, see the History: THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S) A RECORD OF ITS SERVICES IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919 BY FRED. W. WARD (A Second Sportsman's Battalion was soon formed, it was numbered the 24th Royal Fusiliers, and the SPTS service number also extended to the 30th (Reserve) Battalion.) http://sportsmansgazette.blogspot.co.uk/ is a great online resource to
1916 Mar 15. DCM Gazetted.
1917 May 29 Commissioned 2nd Lt.
1921 Jul 8. 23rd (D.F.) Bn.— The undermentioned temp. Lts. relinquish their commissions: . H. Kirk, D.C.M
1921 Oct 25. Joined ADRIC with service no . Posted to A Coy
1921 He is on electoral roll at 28 Glycea Rd (as MIC) with wife Monica Frances Margaret Kirk
1921 census at 28 Glycena Rd as on MIC. His wife with correct initials
1921 Nov 30. His wife escapes a fine for carrying a revolver in London (address is as MIC)
1922 Jan 18. Discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC
1929 Newspaper article shows him at The Square, Comber
1953 May 19 His wife died in Northern Ireland in 1953. He is still alive from funeral notice
1958 Mar 6 died Comber
