Notes
The Roll lists his address as 30 Fitzwilliam Street. It wrongly states he served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, his regimental number as 3556, and that he died on 17/6/1917.
(CWGC records that Rifleman Henry Augustus Kirby, regimental number 44654, died aged 39 on 18/6/1917 serving in the 16th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, and is commemorated on Panel 40 of Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Caroline and Charles Henry Kirby of Uffington, Stamford, Lincolnshire, and that he was a native of Glapthorne who had been educated at Oundle School. Henry's birth in Glapthorne was registered in Oundle District in 1878; he was baptised at Glapthorne Church on 25/2/1880, the son of Charles Henry and Caroline Kirby. On the 1881 and 1891 census he was living with his parents in Glapthorne. On the 1901 census he was lodging at 48 Lincoln Road, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was lodging at 44 Lincoln Road East, Peterborough. The Medal Rolls record that he served in the 1/19th London Regiment under regimental number 3556 before transferring to the 16th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles under regimental number 44654. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 18/6/1917 and the his brother Charles was his legatee).