Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 14th June 1918
BIRD J. W.
John William Bird
Private 31362
7th Bn., South Lancashire Regiment
John William Bird died on Wednesday 13th June 1917, aged 27 years, and is remembered on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born 7th November 1889 at Fulwood to parents Joseph and Sarah Eliza Bird. Joseph Bird was a Miner, who married Sarah Eliza Goodall at St Mary, Sutton in December 1887. Joseph Bird died in 1895, and Sarah Eliza remarried in 1897 to Alfred Woods.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 14th June 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)’
BIRD
John William. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 7th Bn.,
Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South
Lancashire Regt) Private
31362, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 13th June 1917. Formerly
47073 S. Staffs Regt.
Research by Heather Faulkes
