Name
Frederick Arthur Bird
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31665
Northumberland Fusiliers
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
NOT HERTS,
St Giles' Church Memorial, Great Hallingbury, Essex
Pre War
Frederick Arthur Bird was born in 1895 in Great Hallingbury, Essex (in the registration district of Bishop's Stortford), to William and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bird and lived with his parents at Start Hill Cottages, Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford on the 1901 Census. By the 1911 Census although still living at Start Hill, he was working as an errand boy.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served with the Northumberland Fusiliers. He died during the Battle of the Somme.
Additional Information
His father William received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £3 2s. Brother to Albert Henry Bird who died in 1914 and is buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France and who is also named on the Great Hallingbury Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
