Orders, Decorations and Medals

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Alfred Edward Morgan Kirk) nearly extremely fine £120-160

Alfred Edward Morgan Kirk was born in Forest Gate, London, and lived and enlisted at Leeds. Serving as a Lance-Corporal in the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, he was killed in action, aged 22 years, on 1 July 1916 - the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was buried in the Serre Road Cemetery No.3, Puisieux. He was the son of Alfred and Mary R. Kirk, of Woodvale, Ashley, New Milton, Hampshire.