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| His medal entitlement |
NWMP Oath 1887 |
Medical 1887 |
NWMP Engagement
1887 |
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NWMP Attestation
1887 |
Letter 1889 |
Letter 1891 #1 |
Letter 1981 #2 |
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| Letter 1893 |
NWMP Record of
Service 1893 |
Medical Oct 93 |
Land Certificate |
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| Land Grant |
Application for the
Rhodesia 1896 Medal |
Acceptance of the
Rhodesia 1896 Medal |
ILH Attestation
Apr 1900 |
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| QSA roll |
SAC enrollment
form Nov 01 |
SAC Record of
Service #1 |
SAC Record of
Service #2 |
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SAC Misconduct
Sheet |
SAC Misconduct
Sheet |
Letter about clerical
work, p1 |
Letter about clerical
work, p2 |
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Further letter about
clerical work |
SAC Last Pay
Certificate Nov 03 |
SAC disability
waiver 1903 |
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Edward Stephen Kirkman was born on the 28 February 1867 in
Hampstead, Middlesex. His parents were the Reverend Joshua Kirkman (b.
1829) and his mother Harriet (b. 1834). In the 1871 and 1881 censuses the
family lived at, 4 Thurlow Road, London and Joshua was the vicar of St
Stephen’s Church Hampstead. In 1871, Edward’s siblings were sisters
Constance M. (b. 1856 in Suffolk) and Winifred M. (b. 1866) and a brother
John P. (b. 1853 in Aberdeen. At the time of the 1881 census Edward was a 15
year old scholar at Felstead Grammar School, in Essex.
He served with the Winnipeg Infantry Battalion during the N W Canada
rebellion, with the NWMP, with the Matebeleland Relief Force in Rhodesia in
1896 and with the Imperial Light Horse during the Boer War. He took
part in the relief of Mafeking.
His original BSAC Medal is not with the group. Please email the web
master if you know of its whereabouts.
