BIRD William James Military Medal
Private, 7th (Service) Battalion East Surrey Regiment who died of wounds on 26/07/1916. Age 23.
Born Cambridge 14/10/1892 son of Herbert and Maggie Elizabeth Bird. He grew up at Albion Row, Castle End, Cambridge and attended school at St Giles. He became a gardener, and enlisted voluntarily at Egham, Surrey in Oct 1914. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 01/06/1915, and died at the Northern Hospital, York 26/07/1916, of wounds received in action. He is buried in Histon Road Cemetery and remembered on St Giles War Memorial.
He married A Aspland at Egham, Surrey 03/06/1916.
December 2007 Location A7.139