LT. James Tweeddale Kirkland

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203896133
• _FGRAVE: 203896133
• _STAT: Never Married

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Died:
918, Friday August 23, The Almonte Gazette front page
Went Down in Hunland
The following extract is from a letter received by Dr Kirkland from Capt W.R. Greene, 57th Squadron, Royal Air Force, regarding what happened to his son, James Kirkland: "About Kirkland and Riley, what happened was this: They were on a bomb raid which I was leading. The weather was very bad, and we had been followed around by Pfaiz scouts. Just as we got to the objective and had dropped our bombs a thunder storm burst right on top of us. The rain which followed absolutely blinded every one of us, with the result that the formation got split up. I eventually collected a few of them, and having seen them across the lines, I waited for about ten or fifteen minutes; but seeing nothing I came home to find that Kirkland had not arrived. Later on we got a report through from the line that he had been seen going down over Hunland with the Huns following. Probably his engine was hit, or something like that. We are extremely sorry as he was such a topping fellow and awfully stout, and Riley no less so." Riley, referred to above, was Jimmy Kirkland's observer, and "Pfaiz Scouts" are one type of German war planes.