Thursday 29 July 2010

13047 Pte Arthur Kirton, 6th Bn, Lincs Regt

13047 Private Arthur Kirton of the 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, died of wounds on the 28th July 1915. He was born in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire and was living there when he enlisted at Newark, Nottinghamshire in late October or early November 1914. He is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery on Gallipoli.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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