Cuthbert Peniston BIRD

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BIRD, Cuthbert Peniston

Service Number:	588
Enlisted:	14 September 1914, Rosebery Park, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bungary, Suffolk, England, 1892
Home Town:	Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Ratcliffe, Leichester, England
Occupation:	Clerk / Tram Conductor
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1 May 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

World War 1 Service

14 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 588, 13th Infantry Battalion, Rosebery Park, NSW
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 588, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 588, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Cuthbert Peniston BIRD (Service Number 588) was born on 16 November 1891 at Bungy, Suffolk, England. He became a casual tram conductor in Sydney in February 1913 and was made a permanent employee a year later. Very soon after the outbreak if the Great War he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces.
He embarked from Australia on 22 December 1914 on HMAT ‘Ulysses’.
He was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 1 May 1915, only a few days after the landing. The circumstances are not recorded, and his body was never recovered.
His name is recorded on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.
(NAA B2455-3084369)

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Cuthbert Peniston BIRD was born in Bungay, Suffolk, England in 1892

His parents were Edward Joseph BIRD & Agnes Maud PENISTON

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His brother John Peniston BIRD (SN 855) also served during WW1 with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment and was invalided home from Gallipoli

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