Name
Walter James Bird
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/07/1916
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
18294
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
II. D. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, Not on the Letchworth memorials
Pre War
Born Bassingbourn. Son of Charles and Sarah Bird, later of 157, Common View, Letchworth, Herts; Husband of Nora Clara Bird, of 17, Clarkes Lane, Baldock, Herts. Resident Baldock when he enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
It is believed that he was wounded during an assault on Pozieres.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
