Sidney Harold (Sid) KIRKBRIDE

KIRKBRIDE, Sidney Harold

Service Number: 1303
Enlisted: 19 July 1915, D Coy
Last Rank: Gunner
Last Unit: 14th Field Artillery Brigade
Born: Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 2 March 1895
Home Town: Guildford, Swan, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Car Builder (WA Government Railways)
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery: The Huts Cemetery, ​Dickebusch, Belgium
The Huts Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fremantle 849 Memorial, Guildford Grammar School War Memorial, Guildford St. Matthew's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Guildford St. Matthew's Anglican Church Men Who Laid Down Their Lives Honour Roll, Guildford State School Honour Roll, Guildford War Memorial, Guildford and District Roll of Honour, Midland Railway Workshops Soldiers Memorial, Mount Lawley - Inglewood War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

19 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1303, 32nd Infantry Battalion, D Coy
18 Nov 1915: Involvement Private, 1303, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
18 Nov 1915: Embarked Private, 1303, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
15 Mar 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 14th Field Artillery Brigade
26 Nov 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 1303, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , 53rd Battery

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sid was the second of three sons of John Kirkbridge (born 1870 in Yorkshire, England) and Emma Partington (born 1863 in Yorkshire, England). John and Emma Married in Sydney, NSW in 1885, and Sid and younger brother Stanley were born in Fremantle, WA.

Sid was living in Guildford, WA and working for the WA Governemtn Railways as a Car (Locomotive) Builder when he enlisted in 1915 in the AIF as a Private with 32nd Battalion D Coy (Service No: 1303). Sid was WIA in France on 21 November 1916, and a Gunner with 14th Field Artillery when he was KIA near Ypres, France on 4 October 1917

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