William was employed by the Westminster Bank Ltd on leaving school but in early 1941 volunteered for the Indian Army, leaving for India in August of that year.

Commissioned into the 3rd/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, he went to Burma with his regiment where for a time he held the post of Battalion Quarter Master. William was a Company Officer in April 1943 when he was initially reported as ‘missing in action’ and later died whilst a POW in Rangoon Central Goal: cause of death was never discovered. William lies at rest in Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar with a recorded date of death at the age of 21 on Saturday 3^rd July 1943

Son of William C Kirkpatrick & Elizabeth A Kirkpatrick of Braddan, Isle of Man.

A copy of this story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-
First Lieutenant William George KIRKPATRICK