16 December 2009

2614260 Gnr Albert Victor Kirk, Royal Artillery

Ipswich born, 2614260 Gunner Albert Victor Kirk of the 7th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 16th December 1943. He was 28 years old, the son of Francis George and Gertrude Eva Kirk of Brantham in Suffolk. Albert died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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