Percy Kirke (British Army officer)
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Lieutenant General Percy Kirke (1684 – 1 January 1741) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot.
Military career
Kirke was commissioned as an ensign in Trelawny's Regiment in 1686.{{cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/013.html|title=Lieutenant General Percy Kirke 1710-1741|publisher=Queen’s Royal Surreys|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626014300/http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/013.html|accessdate=27 February 2016|archive-date=2004-06-26}} He was taken as a prisoner of war at the Battle of Almansa in April 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession. He went on to be colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot in 1710.Cannon, p. 33 As was usual at the time, this regiment was also named after its current colonel, from one of whom, Percy Kirke, it acquired its nickname Kirke's Lambs.Anon (1916) Regimental Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army. London: Gale and Polden. p. 43
Kirke died on 1 January 1741 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.{{cite web|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/percy-kirk|title= Percy Kirke|publisher=Westminster Abbey|access-date=4 July 2021}}
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Sources
- {{cite book|first=Richard|last=Cannon|authorlink=Richard Cannon|title=Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot|year=1838|location=London|publisher=Clowes and Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szS-_M2i2_AC}}
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Category:British Army lieutenant generals
Category:British Army personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
Category:Queen's Royal Regiment officers