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Serjeant JOHN WALTER BIRD

Service Number: 410178
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 28 October 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

VI. E. 1.

Egypt

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Royal Armoured Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Walter and Mary Elisabeth Bird, of Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription O FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND AND THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT IS STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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