Participant Info

Surname

Kirkby

First Name

Roy

Initial

W

Service Number

969

Rank

gunner

Unit Served

1st Australian Siege Battery

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

February 26

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

May 9

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 57, image page 56

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Thomas and S. Kirkby

Parental Address

207 Albury Road, Petersham

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Petersham, June 26, 1895, educated Stanmore and Cleveland Street Public Schools, clerk, electric light depot, Sydney Municipal Council, enlisted February 1916, embarked May 1916. War service: France.(His image surname is recorded as Kirby, not Kir