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9517 Company Sergeant Major Robert Gladstone Kirby, M.M., born Felixstowe, Suffolk; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment on the Western Front from 6.10.1914;
He was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, March 1915; later re-joined his unit and was awarded the M.M., almost certainly as result of bravery on the Somme, July 1916;
He was killed in action the following year, 26.7.1917, when his party was returning to Chateau Segard and was hit by a shell near "Bedford House" in the Ypres Salient; he is buried in Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.
Two of his brothers also died in the Great War: 36083 Sergeant Frank Kirby PLY10040 and Private Caleb Kirby.
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