Lieutenant Colonel ALEXANDER SHAW BIRKBECK
Service Number: 34569
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
Date of Death
Died 23 April 1943
Age 37 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment Cdg. 142nd (7th Bn. The Suffolk Regt.) Regt. Royal Armoured Corps
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Major-General Sir William Henry Birkbeck, K.C.B., C.M.G., and of Lady Birkbeck (nee Shaw); husband of Norah Myron Birkbeck.
- Personal Inscription REMEMBER HIM, O GOD, FOR GOOD AND BRING HIM INTO GLORY THROUGH SUFFERING
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