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Military service
Service number:
928447
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
153rd Bn.
Birth:
August 13, 1897
Death:
January 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
30. Blk. V.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Mary Elizabeth Kirk, of Crown Terrace, Lair Gate, Beverley, Yorkshire, England.
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Grave marker
Marker at the grave of Private Leonard Kirk, 153rd (Wellington) Battalion, in the Harriston Cemetery, Harriston, Ontario. Pte Kirk died of disease. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2018.) -
Grave marker
Marker in the ground a few feet in front of Private Leonard Kirk's headstone in the Harriston Cemetery, Harriston, Ontario. It reads [with slash marks added to separate lines]: "PTE. LEONARD KIRK / NO. 928447 / BORN 1899 - DIED 1917 / ENLISTED AT HARRISTON / WITH 153 BATTALION C.E.F. / JAN. 1. 1916". Pte. Kirk died of illness, diagnosed as pleural pneumonia, at a military hospital in London, Ontario. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2018.) -
Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
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Private Leonard Kirk
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Kirk
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Kirk
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 269 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HARRISTON PUBLIC CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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