Arthur Walter BIRD

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Service Number:	NX67306
Enlisted:	15 January 1941, Paddington New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Lithgow, New South Wales, 9 January 1917
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Pastry Cook
Died:	Illness, Borneo, 9 July 1945, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 5 No known grave Roll of Honour Manly, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Manly War Memorial NSW, Ranau Number 2 Prisoner of War Jungle Camp "The Last Camp Memorial"

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sapper, NX67306
15 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Paddington New South Wales
15 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX67306

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Royal Australian Engineers, 8 Division

Rank - Sapper

Son of Walter and Pearl Myra Bird; Husband of Beryl Marjorie Bird, of Stanmore, New South Wales