Description
1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, Lieutenant Edward Temple Kirsop, Northumberland Yeomanry, Northd Fusiliers and Durham Light Infantry.
1914-15 Star officially impressed: “2239 Pte E. T. Kirsop. North’d Yeo”
BWM & Victory officially impressed: “2. Lieut E.T. Kirsop”
Edward Temple Kirsop was born on 6th July 1892 in Darlington, Durham.
The son of William Edward Kirsop and Annie (Horseman), both Durham locals.
During the First World War, Edward first served as a Private with the 1/1st Battalion Northumberland Hussars.
He entered into France on 18th April 1915.
He later served with the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, same with a number of men from this Yeomanry Battalion.
Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Durham Light Infantry on 31st May 1918.
After the war he relinquished his commission on 1st December 1921.
Around this time he married his wife Florence Harriet Hartley in Darlington, Durham during April 1921.
Around the time of WW2, he was living in Kingston Upon Thames, Maldron and Coombe, Surrey.
The 1939 Register notes he was “Officers Emergency Reserve, Transport Only.”
In later life he lived in Swansea, Glamorgan Wales.
He died there on 11th March 1949, aged 56.
During WW1, the North Star (Darlington) on 16th August 1915, recorded their “Brave men of Middlesbrough who have volunteered to serve their King and Country in the great crisis.”
“Bass, Ratcliff and Cretton Ltd
Trooper Edward Temple Kirsop, Northumberland Hussars.”
