Walter Kimberley

As of 1901 and 1904, Kimberley worked as an engraver and a packer respectively.[4] While playing for Coventry City, Kimberley worked at the Coventry Ordnance Works.[5] An army reservist since 1904,[4] Kimberley rejoined the Coldstream Guards in August 1914, after Britain's entry into the First World War and was appointed lance corporal.[4] The following month, he was captured by the Germans at Maubeuge during the First Battle of the Marne and spent two years as a prisoner of war in camps at Döberitz, Dyrotz and Cottbus.[6][7] Beginning with a six-month stay in hospital with laryngitis and bronchitis, Kimberley's health declined during his internment and he was repatriated to Britain in August 1916 with pulmonary tuberculosis.[7] He was immediately discharged from the army and fell into severe ill heath, permanently losing his voice and dying at home in Aston on 22 April 1917.[3] Kimberley was buried in Witton Cemetery, Birmingham.[2] He was married and had two children, one of whom died in infancy.[4]