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Francis Kirk : ウィキペディア英語版 | Francis Kirk Francis Kirk (1869) was one of a number of Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) who came to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, to guard and oversee the work of the prisoners transported to Western Australia.〔"Enrolled Pensioner Guards" exhibition display material provided by Army Museum, Fremantle, 2015. Pensioner Guards, State Library of Western Australia. http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning/government_arch〕 ==Early life== Kirk was born at Achalive, County Tyrone . On 28 November 1823, aged 16 years, he enlisted with the British Army at Glasgow and served as a private for 22 years with the 8th Royal Artillery. His service included eight years in Corfu. He was discharged at Woolwich on 13 October 1846 with a pension. Kirk is recorded as exhibiting exemplary conduct and was awarded four Good Conduct badges. He is described as being in height, with fair hair and blue eyes.〔Broomhall, F.H., The Veterans. A History of the Enrolled Pensioner Force in Western Australia, 1850 – 1880, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, 1989, p. B161.〕
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