A birth registration was found for William F G Kite: Mother's Maiden Name: Walton; Date: Jan-Feb-Mar 1915; District: Edmonton; County: Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex; Volume: 3a; Page: 1279. Parents: William Francis Kite and Emma Walton, married June 2, 1901, at St John the Evangelist, Charlotte Street, Camden, Middlesex, England.

William Kite, Sr., was a sergeant in the Royal West Kent Regiment. Family stories indicate that the he had been a prisoner of war in Germany about 1916. He returned home to England in 1919, but shortly after could not be found, so his seven children were sent to child welfare. [William died in 1948 at the Star Garter military hospital.]

In 1929, William G. Kite, 14, arrived at Sydney, Australia, in a group of Barnardo boys.