Name
John Bird
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/06/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3564
London Regiment *1
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
A. II. 49.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
John Bird was born in 1894 in Stockwell, London to John Thomas and Sarah Bird.
On the 1911 Census the family were living at 72 Tyers Street, Lambeth, Kennington, London and he was working as a Drapery Assistant.
Wartime Service
As no medal records seem to exist, it is possible that John never served overseas, but became ill and died in the UK before being posted.
Additional Information
War gratuity was inadmissible as he had less than 6 months service, but pay owing of £2 4s 5d was awarded to his father John. The Register of Soldiers' Effects states that he died 'At Home' at the Bishop's Stortford Hospital (appendix).
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer
