Leslie Allan BIRD

BIRD, Leslie Allan

Service Number: SX5253
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
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World War 2 Service

13 Jun 1940: Involvement Private, SX5253
13 Jun 1940: Enlisted Private, SX5253, 2nd/8th Field Ambulance, Adelaide, SA
13 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5253
7 Apr 1941: Imprisoned Captured Derna, held at Camp 57 Campo Gruppigmano Nrothern Italy
21 Aug 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5253
21 Aug 1945: Discharged
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography 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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