Person    | Male  Born 18/10/1904  Died 20/4/1941

Albert V. Kite

Categories: Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

Albert V. Kite

Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Old Palace School, Bow, E3 on 20 April 1941.

Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman Albert Victor Kite was born on 18 October 1904 in Tooting, the youngest of the four children of James Kite and Elizabeth Charlotte Kite née Beaumont. His father was a Government Clerk. On 11 December 1904 he was baptised at St Thomas Church, Telford Park, Streatham Hill and the family were living at 43 Midmoor Road, London, SW12. His mother died in 1911 and the census for that year shows him living with his grandparents Charles and Caroline Kite at The Kennels, Kennel Cottages, Birling, West Malling, Kent.

In 1933 married Gertrude Burnett in Croydon and they had two children, Victor Richard Kite who was born in 1936 and Sylvia J. Kite who was born in 1939. The 1939 England and Wales Register shows them living at 166 Village Way, Beckenham, Kent. His occupation was listed as a Printers' Reader. He joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and was attached to the Stanhope Grove Fire Station, Beckenham. He died when a German bomb landed on Auxiliary Fire Service Sub Station 24U, which was housed in Old Palace LCC School, St. Leonards Street, Poplar, aged 36 years, on 20 April 1941. He was buried at Beckenham Cemetery and Crematorium, Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 4TD. Administration of his estate was granted to his widow and his effects totalled £1,556-1s-1d.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Albert V. Kite

Commemorated ati

Beckenham Auxiliary firemen

Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a pl...

Read More

Other Subjects

Eric Dudley Lewis

Eric Dudley Lewis

Auxiliary fireman killed in the bomb attack on Henry Cavendish School, Balham. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Auxiliary Fireman Eric Dudley Lewis was born on 2 February 1912...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Fm. Alfred George Abrahart
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
John Whittaker Dilworth

John Whittaker Dilworth

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar. From the Hindle House Memorial Project: "John Whittaker-Dilworth lived at 107 Hindle House, Arcola Street, Hackney E8 with his wife Hilda Dilwort...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Lt.-Col. Francis A. Brooks, MD, MRCS

Lt.-Col. Francis A. Brooks, MD, MRCS

Inspecting Officer on staff of Chief Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1899-1935. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The Museum of the Order of S...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Arthur Henry Wenborne

Arthur Henry Wenborne

Auxiliary Fire Serviceman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School.

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials