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BIRD, Fred
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 102 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newtown, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1898 |
| Home Town: | Mentone, Kingston, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Alfred Sutton Junior School, Wokingham Road, Reading, Berkshire. |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 21 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mentone Memorial Gates, Mentone St. Augustine's Anglican Church Memorial Window, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 10 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 102, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 102, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 21 Nov 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 102, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 102 awm_unit: 24 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-11-21 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1898 Bird Fred Reading 2c 369.
Born in, and resident of, Newtown, Reading. He was in the local Boy Scouts and a Piper in the YMCA. He is remembered on the war memorial in the Alfred Sutton Junior School, Wokingham Road, Reading, Berkshire where Fred was a pupil. This is a school memorial for former pupils and it takes the form of a white marble tablet in the hall of the school.
Enlisted aged 16-died aged 18.