WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| M/351377 | Private Sidney Charles Kirby | Royal Army Service Corps,1056 M T Company | |
| Medal roll |
Discharged 5/12/1919 No service/pension records exist on Ancestry |
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| http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-army-service-corps-in-the-first-world-war/ | The ASC was organised into units known as Companies, each
fulfilling a specific role. In most cases the Company also had a sub-title
name describing its role. Some of the Companies were under orders of the Divisions of the army; the rest were under direct orders of the higher formations of the Corps, Army or General Headquarters of the army in each theatre of war. They were known as part of the Lines of Communication. Many men of the ASC were not, however, with ASC Companies, for many were attached to other types of unit in the army – for example, as vehicle drivers. Mechanical Transport The British Army was already the most mechanised in the world when the Great War began, in terms of use of mechanical transport. It maintained that leadership, and by 1918 this was a strategically important factor in being able to maintain supply as the armies made considerable advances over difficult ground. All Mechanical Transport Companies were part of the Lines of Communication and were not under orders of a Division, although some (unusually known as Divisional Supply Columns and Divisional Ammunition Parks) were in effect attached to a given Division and worked closely with it. Those in the Lines of Communication operated in wide variety of roles, such as being attached to the heavy artillery as Ammunition Columns or Parks, being Omnibus Companies, Motor Ambulance Convoys, or Bridging and Pontoon units. Soldiers who served in the Mechanical Transport usually had the letter M as a prefix to their number.  |
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| AVL Roll of Honour |
AVL Address: Swanwick's Cottage, Fisher Lane (no
21 or 23) RoH: served in Mesopotamia |
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Family history etc
| Private Sidney Charles Kirby | |||
| 1884 FREEBMD | Born Bingham JUL-SEP | Father: Alfred Kirby, died in 1886, aged 34 | |
| 1889 | September qtr. Mother married Henry Huskinson Sidney used surname Huskinson after 1901 census |
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| Census 1891 | Lived in Fisher Lane with: Step-Father: Henry Huskinson, b.1861 in Bingham Mother: Fanny Huskinson, b. 1855 Bingham Brother: William T Kirby b. 1893 Bingham |
Baker |
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| Census 1901 | Lived in Fisher Lane, Bingham with: Step-father: Henry Huskinson Mother: Fanny Huskinson Brother: Topham Kirby And Maternal grandfather: Samuel Thraves, b. 1820 in Bingham |
plumber’s labourer Lamp lighter gas works plumber’s labourer watchmaker |
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| Census 1911 | Living as a boarder at Two Loco Terrace, Netherfield, Notts with: William James Walding Lucy Helena Walding, |
Railway Labourer Railway Labourer |
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| Census 1911 Family |
Family at Fisher Lane, Bingham: Henry Huskinson Fanny Huskinson William Topham Kirby |
Bill Poster plumber’s labourer (out of work) |
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| 1919 AVL | Swanwick’s Cottage Fisher Lane | ||
| 1920 FREEBMD |
Oct – Dec Sidney C Kirby married Winifred Lord in Nottingham | ||
| Electoral rolls | 1931 Sydney Charles and Winnie Kirby at 61 Peas Hill Road, Nottingham | 1921: Huskinsons and William Topham Kirby at Swanwick’s Cottage. | |
| 1939 Register |
61 Peas Hill Road, Nottingham: Sydney C Kirby, b. 39 June1884, married Winnifred Kirby, b. 21 Sept 1896, married Adelina Lord, b. 11 Aug 1866, widowed |
Motor driver Unpaid domestic duties Unpaid domestic duties |
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| 1956 | OCT – DEC Died Nottingham | ||