Geoffrey Creighton Kirk

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Geoffrey Creighton AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Kirk AWMM

Nama Hōia

20056 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

8 Apr 1917 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM 13 Inkerman Street, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Valentine Kirk (father), Box 825, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Western Desert AWMM
• Tunisia AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

20056 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Insurance Clerk/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Major/Military AWMM
27 (Machine Gun) Battalion AWMM

Son of Valentine and Mildred May Kirk, of Remuera, Auckland

Two sons, brothers Geoffrey Creighton Kirk (20056) and Thomas Everton Kirk (NZ40649) were killed in WW2. AWMM

Matenga

4 May 1943 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia AWMM I. D. 28. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Family grave memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Officers' Club Auckland, The Northern Club, 19 Princes Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Onehunga War Memorial Swimming Pool, Jellicoe Park (off Quadrant Road), Park Gardens, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• St. Aidans Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland 1050 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2104431
Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• Weekly News
  Weekly News, 1943
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 2: WW2 104
• Kay, R. (1958). 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.