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
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Arm ...
.
Military career
Kirke was commissioned as an
ensign in Trelawny's Regiment in 1686.
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
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Arm ...
in 1710. 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''.
Kirke died on 1 January 1741 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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1684 births
1741 deaths
British Army lieutenant generals
British Army personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
Queen's Royal Regiment officers
Burials at Westminster Abbey
King's Own Royal Regiment officers