Charles Stewart Kirkby

Rank:

Sergeant

Regimental number:

430192

Unit at enlistment:

48th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Cremated, Kelowna, British Columbia - No Known Cemetery

Commemorated at:

Farringdon Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Victoria, British Columbia

Next of kin address:

195 Nelson Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Clerk

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX May 27, 1916

Reported Wounded

Word was received in the city this morning by Mrs. George A. Kirkby of 195 Nelson Street, to the effect that her brother, Pte. Charles Stewart Kirkby had been wounded by shrapnel. Pte. Kirkby is a Brantford boy. He enlisted in Victoria, B.C., with the 48th Battalion. His mother and his sisters live in the city. Pte. Kirkby had been in the West for about five years.

BX August 29, 1969

KIRKBY – In Kelowna, B.C. on Sunday, August 24. 1969. Charles Stuart Kirkby in his 84th year. Survived by his wife, Phyllis, a brother William Kirkby of Drumheller, Alberta and a sister Mrs. Emerett (Isabell) Campbell of Brantford, Ontario. Predeceased by a sister Mrs. George (Mary Jane) Kirkby in 1968. Cremation following service.