Name
Henry Buchanan Kirk
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/05/1916
49
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Brigadier General
General Staff
93rd Infantry Brigade (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches four times
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TREPORT MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot 2. Row O. Grave 18.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Plaque in Holy Trinity Church, Stirling, Scotland
Pre War
Born on 10 Aug 1867 in Dublin, Ireland son of Lt. Col. James B. Kirk, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Educated at Haileybury College 1881-84. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1888 and rose to Brigadier General.
Wartime Service
The 93rd Infantry Brigade with Brigadier General Kirk in command concentrated in Ripon, Yorkshire in mid-1915 and then, after training, departed Liverpool on 7 Dec 1915 on the R.M.S Empress of Britain arriving at Port Said on 21 Dec 1915. Their purpose there was to assist in the defence of the Suez Canal which they did uneventfully until 29 Feb 1916 when they sailed for France. Arriving at Marseilles they travelled by train to the Somme in preparation for the big offensive. Brigadier General Kirk became ill soon after arriving in France and was hospitalised in No 3 General Hospital, Le Treport. He died of cerebro-spinal meningitis and pneumonia.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
