CWGC - Son of Ernest Arthur Kirkland, of 71 St.
Augustine's Mount, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and
of the late Ann Eliza Kirkland.   Died at 151
Abbey Hills Road.

Death Certificate confirms the above and that his
father - Ernest Arthur Kirkland was employed as a
Tube Spinner.  It was his father who reported his
death.

His parents were entertaining a Wedding Party of
about a dozen people, four of whom were killed.  
The bride and groom had gone to a house a short
distance away.

Sharing a bed with his cousin - Kenneth Kirkland
(then aged 17) - Kenneth survived the bombing.