Name
William Bird
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
11498
Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 102.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born in 1894 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of Charles Henry and Margaret Louisa Bird and was living in 159 Lord Street, Hoddesdon in 1901 and 1911 as a gardener.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at St Paul’s Churchyard, London, entered France on 19 Jul 1915 and was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
