Name
Robert Stanley Bird
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/02/1919
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
160850
Labour Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
OFFLEY (ST. MARY MAGDALENE) CHURCHYARD
South of Chancel. Churchyard Memorial 081
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Great Offley Village Memorial
Pre War
Robert Stanley Bird was born in 1899 in Semer, Suffolk, the son of Agnes Ellen Bird.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his grandparents Samuel and Alice Bird and living at Lower Offley, Herts, along with his uncles John and Ephraim Bird. His grandfather was working as an agricultural labourer. He remained living with his grandparents at Lower Offley, nr Hitchin in 1911 when he was 12 years old.
By the time of enlistment in 1916, when he was 17 years 11 months old, Robert was said to be living in Harris Lane, Offley and was working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin in 1916 and service reckoned from 20 February 1917 when he was posted to the 21st Training Reserve.
He died from Double Lobar Pneumonia and Purulent Bronchitis on 22 January 1919, aged 20, at Grayling War Hospital, Chichester.
He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene, Offley.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £9 15s 4d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
N.B. although a service record exists, it is incomplete, having been damaged by fire in WW2.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne,
