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Corporal CECIL ARTHUR BIRD

Service Number: 6298955
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY

VI. 320.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Cecil and May Bird, of Lowdham, Nottinghamshire; husband of Irene Bird.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS HIS MEMORY IS KEPT WE LOVED HIM TOO DEARLY EVER TO FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 328
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