Captain Richard Crofton George Moore Kinkead

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Date published: 30/07/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 30/10/1914
Age at death: 31
Cemetery: Ypres Town Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: E2. 5.
Information: Captain Richard Crofton George Moore Kinkead, Royal Army Medical Corps, was the only son of Professor and Mrs. Kinkead, of Galway. He was educated at Galway Grammar School and afterwards at Portora. He then entered Galway College, where he graduated. He was resident pupil at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin, in 1908, and afterwards House Surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. He landed at Ostend on October 9th and was in the thick of the fighting until October 30th, when he was killed while attending the wounded.