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Photo : Andy of the Find
a Grave website
2nd Lieutenant William John KIRKWOOD. 6th
Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mr. D. A. and Jeanie Kirkwood, of Glasgow; husband of Winnie Kirkwood,
of Eastbourne. Killed 11 November 1915. Aged 31.
Buried HILL 10 CEMETERY.
The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
" William Kirkwood joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on
May 6th 1915 and was commissioned into the Yorkshires on July 28th.
2nd Lt Kirkwood missed the 6th Battalion’s landing at Suvla Bay on August
6th 1915 and the fighting at Lala Baba and Scimitar Hill which followed. He
joined in a draft of six officers to replace those lost in these actions in
September 1915 while the battalion were stationed around Karakol Dagh.
2nd Lt William John Kirkwood was killed in action during trench skirmishing
with the Turks on November 11th 1915 at the age of 31 just three weeks before
the battalion were withdrawn from the Gallipoli peninsula.
He still lies on Gallipoli, his gave being in Hill 10 Cemetery to the north
of Suvla.
2nd Lt William John Kirkwood was the son of Mr D A Kirkwood and his wife Jeanie
who lived in Glasgow and the husband of Winnie Kirkwood of Eastbourne."
The following comments are from Dimitris Corcodilos on the Find
a Grave website;-
"Second Lieutenant William John Kirkwood, 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment,
was killed at Jephson's Post, Suvla, by shellfire on 11th November 1915. His
photograph was published on 25th December 1915."
"It has been officially announced that Second-Lieutenant W. J. Kirkwood,
11th Yorkshires, was killed in action on the 11th November. He was the elder
son of Mr. D. A. Kirkwood, Dunbriton, Bearsden, Before the war he was engaged
in business as a chartered accountant in London. He was a native of Glasgow.
Lieut. Kirkwood was a well-known golfer, and competed in the Amateur Irish
Championships. He was married in September last."
"The late Sec.-Lieut. Kirkwood, 11th Yorkshire Regiment (attached 6th),
who fell in the Dardanelles on November 11th, was the elder son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Kirkwood, of Bearsden, near Glasgow. He joined the Army in May,
and went to the Mediterranean in September. This well-known golfer was a competitor
in the Amateur and Irish Open Championships. At the beginning of last September
he married Miss Olive Rose (Winnie), elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
de Mattos, of Eastbourne, late of Cardiff and Reading." [3]
He is buried in Hill 10 Cemetery, Suvla, he was the 31 year-old son of David
and Jeanie Kirkwood, of Glasgow; husband of Winnie Kirkwood, of Eastbourne."
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