BIRD, Leslie Allan
| Service Number: | SX5253 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/8th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Port Pirie, South Australia, 3 March 1905 |
| Home Town: | Kirkcaldy, South Australia |
| Schooling: | East Adelaide and Adelaide Technical SchoolS, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Semaphore Park, South Australia, 1 June 1982, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Adelaide 2/8 Australian Field Ambulance WW2 Honour Board, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Henley Beach Council WW2 Honour Roll and Addendum |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Jun 1940: | Involvement Private, SX5253 | |
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| 13 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, SX5253, 2nd/8th Field Ambulance, Adelaide, SA | |
| 13 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX5253 | |
| 7 Apr 1941: | Imprisoned Captured Derna, held at Camp 57 Campo Gruppigmano Nrothern Italy | |
| 21 Aug 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX5253 | |
| 21 Aug 1945: | Discharged | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Mrs Bird and the late C.L. Bird.
Interests included cricket - played for the YMCA and East Torrens United.
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Les was the youngest of three children of Charles Lewis Bird (b1871 in Port Adelaide, South Australia) and Eliza Jane Uern (b1876 in Caniwigra, South Australia). Charles and Eliza married in 1897 in Port Pirie, SA where they lived until their Divorce in the early 1900s. Eliza settled in Hindmarsh, and Charles remarried in 1911, having three more children. He was killed when the bicycle he was riding was hit by a car.
Les was a Carpenter in 1934 when he married Kathleen (Kath) Gwen Mugford (b1905 in Auburn, South Australia) and the couple settled in Kircaldy, Hindmarsh SA where Les was a Carpenter.
In 1940 Les enlisted in the Australian Army and was a Private (Service No:SX5253) with 2/8 Field Ambulance when he was taken PoW on 7 April 1941 in North Africa. From Derna he was sent to Camp 57 at Gruppignano near Udine in North Eastern Italy. Les was repatriated on 17 May 1943 and Discharged in August 1945.
Les died in 1982 and Kath in 1992.
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