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Gunner WILLIAM JAMES BIRD

Service Number: 82918
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

"A" Bty. 174th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE

II. L. 12.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Sophia Bird, of Langton Green, Eye, Suffolk.
  • Personal Inscription NOBLY HE GAVE AND MORE THAN LIFE TO SUCH WE OWE
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Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 549
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