Arthur Kirk (6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment)
Poems and photographs.
The contributors grandfather, Arthur Kirk, met his wife when he was billeted with her family during the war. Photographs collected by the family include soldiers of the Royal Artillery and men on the Modder River in South Africa, which is possibly earlier than World War I.
Arthur Kirk fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was wounded and carried shrapnel in his back. After the war he became a tailor in Kettering. He died c.1970 and will remain to the contributor a keen photographer who also wrote poetry, which is included in this contribution.
CONTRIBUTOR
Jennifer Ann Rendell
DATE
1916
LANGUAGE
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ITEMS
10
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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