Service Details
Name:
 KIRK
Given Name:
 PERCIVAL GORDON
Initials:
 P G
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
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Unit:
 55th Sqdn.
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Unit 2:
 and 1st Bn. Cambridgeshire Regiment
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Date of Death:
 1917-08-13
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, pilot of DH4 #A7475. His observer was Lt G T Young-Fullelove. On 13/8/17, the Squadron had left it's base at 0642 to undertake a bombing mission on a rail junction at Deynze. On the return, they encountered enemy aircraft. The plane was seen to nose dive and that Young-Fullelove was seen to jump
Additional
Information:
Son of Charles S. and Rosa Kirk, of Matatiele, East Griqualand, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 IV. D. 25.

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