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- ( described in an obituary for his father in 1919, as being "on active service".) Service number 4412 Rank Private Roll title 3 Australian General Hospital (May 1915) Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918 Date of Embarkation 15 May 1915 Place of embarkation Sydney Ship Embarked On RMS Mooltan
3 Australian General Hospital (May 1915) Thomas Shirley Kirkness Create Anzac Certificate Service Number: 4412 Place of Birth: Mudgee, NSW, Australia
Place of Enlistment: Sydney, NSW, Australia Next of Kin: Kirkness, Elsie Mabel (wife)
Mar 23, 2015 - James Dunlop Kirkness was sent to Abbassia and worked on Lemnos together with his uncle, Thomas Shirley Kirkness, No. 4412 who eventually was sent to join the 2nd Light ...... Postscript James (Jim) Dunlop Kirkness was a prolific letter writer during World War One.
The 1914 war diary of James Dunlop Kirkness Published on Mar 24, 2015 Gosford man James (Jim) Kirkness joined the Australian Naval and Military Expedition in 1914. He sailed to New Britain to serve in some of the first Australian army engagements of WWI. This very rare first-hand account of an Australian soldier at the very dawning of WWI has been transcribed by Carmen Coutts-Smith (nee Kirkness) for Gosford City Library.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Friday 17 July 1953 FUNERALS KIRKNESS -The Relatives and Friends of Mrs. E. M. Kirkness of 12 Edgar Street, Auburn, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hudson, of 7 Beatrice Street, Auburn, are invited to attend the Funeral of her dearly beloved Husband and their
loved Father, THOMAS SHIRLEY KIRKNESS; to leave the Methodist Church, Helena Street, Auburn This Friday after service commencing at 2 p.m. for Rookwood Crematorium. KIRKNESS -Lodge Auburn, No. 484, U.G.L. of N.S.W. -The Worshipful Master invites the Brethren of the above Lodge to attend the Cremation of their late Bro. T. S. KIRKNESS. No regalia. See family notice. J. T. PLUNKETT. W. M. B. W. LEES Secretary.
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