KIRBY, PATRICK GERARD Rank: Private Service No: 62434 Date of Death: 03/07/1942 Age: 23 Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry 21st Bn. Panel Reference: Column 103. Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of John Kirby and of Carroline Kirby (nee Johnson), of Te Aroha, Auckland, New Zealand; husband of June Millicent Kirby (nee Russell), of Ngongotaha, Auckland, New Zealand.http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2123115/KIRBY,%20PATRICK%20GERARD
Bottom of page 163 & onwards of the 21st Bn history explains what happened that day. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-21Ba-c7.html#n163
