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20/02/2020
20/02/2020
20/02/2020 The CWGC record Gunner Hubert Kyle as the son of Robert and Jennie Kyle of Clogher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
20/02/2020 Gunner Hubert Kyle is commemorated locally on Clogher War Memorial.
20/02/2020 Gunner H Kyle is buried in Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan. His inscription reads: HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY HIS DEATH A SILENT SORROW.
20/02/2020 Gunner Hubert Kyle was with 7 Battery, part of the 5th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (H.A.A.) when he died of acute colitis in Sakurajima Prisoner of War camp (Os-04D) on 14th March 1944.
20/02/2020 Gunner Hubert Kyle became a Japanese prisoner of war.
20/02/2020 Hubert Kyle served with the Royal Artillery in World War Two.
20/02/2020 The 1911 census lists the family at house 1 in Townagh, Aghintain, County Tyrone, Townagh lies north-west of Clogher. His father was not listed, but his mother was not a widow.
20/02/2020 Known family: Robert Kyle, Jennie Kyle, Alecia Kyle (born about 1906), Hector /Herbert Kyle (born 25th July 1907), Kathleen Kyle (born 10th February 1909), Hubert Kyle (born 18th September 1911).
20/02/2020 Hubert Kyle was born on 18th September 1911. He was one of at least four children, all born in the Clogher – Fivemiletown area.
20/02/2020 Hubert Kyle was the son of Robert and Jennie Kyle. Robert Kyle and Jeanie Thompson were married on 10th May 1906 in the district of Dungannon.
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