UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: Robert William Bird
Birth Place: Rounds Green, Worcs
Residence: Oldbury, Worcs
Death Date: 24 Oct 1918
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Dudley, Worcs
Rank: Private
Regiment: Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Number: 50928
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
from the 'Commonwealth War Graves Commission' site...
Name: BIRD, ROBERT WILLIAM
Initials: R W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Somerset Light Infantry
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 23/10/1918
Service No: 50928
Additional information: Son of Sarah Jane Danks (formerly Bird), of 3, St. John's Rd., Langley, Birmingham, and the late Robert Richard Bird. Native of Rounds Green, Oldbury.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: F. 10.
Cemetery: RAMILLIES BRITISH CEMETERY
1901: 15 Rounds Green, Oldbury, Worc
Robert R Bird 41 Head Coal Miner Southampton, Hants
Sarah J Bird 34 Wife
Lily B Bird 7 Dau
Robert W Hams 2 son (Robert W ditto on image)
1891: 17 Bridge Street, Oldbury, Worc
Robert R Bird 30 Coal Miner Southampton
Sarah J Bird 24 Oldbury
West Midlands Marriage indexes for the years: 1884
BIRD * Robert R HODGKISS Sarah J Dudley, St James Dudley Register Office 202/010/46
BIRD * Robert R HOTCHKISS Sarah J Dudley, St James Dudley Register Office 202/010/46
*COMPLETED* Robert W Bird born abt 1899 - died 1918
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*COMPLETED* Robert W Bird born abt 1899 - died 1918
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Re: Robert W Bird born abt 1899 - died 1918
his mothers 2nd marriage...
Marriage 1915
BIRD Sarah J DANKS Thomas West Bromwich Register Office (WBRO) Sandwell Register Office WBRO/61/13
Marriage 1915
BIRD Sarah J DANKS Thomas West Bromwich Register Office (WBRO) Sandwell Register Office WBRO/61/13
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