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000000/00.00 Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Herbert Henry Kirby Frank Anning Kirby Somme Sries Almost 200 men with Bexley connections died on the Somme: here are just some of their stories. Bthers in arms Frank Anning Kirby and Herbert Henry Kirby were brothers from Welling; they both attended Foster’s School. Frank worked for the Co-Operative store in Bexleyheath, Herbert at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Fm near and far Many men on our local memorials served with Commonwealth forces on the Somme. Often they had left England just a few years before, seeking a new life overseas. Edgar Waters served in the Australian Army, Reginald Dimond with the Canadian forces: both are remembered on the Bexleyheath War Memorial. Lieutenant James Pearce Morum came from South Africa. Educated at Merton Court School in Sidcup, his name is recorded in the town’s Methodist Church memorial. James Pearce Morum Edgar Waters Reginald Dimond Frank was killed on 3rd July – his officer wrote that “we have lost a fine, upright and manly young fellow, and a faithful friend”. Herbert was killed just four months later.
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