Participant Info

Given Name

Henry James

Family Name

Bird

Service Number

2465

Place of Birth

Paynesville VIC

Occupation

Engine Driver

Place of Enlistment

Melbourne VIC

Next of Kin

Father, Isaac Moysey, Orbost, Gippsland, Victoria

Address on Enlistment

Paynesville

Unit on Embarkation

2nd Field Company Engineers, Reinforcement 12

Age at Embarkation

24

Embarkation Vessel

RMS Mooltan, Sydney NSW on 11 December 1915

Rank on Enlistment

Sapper

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Sapper

Date of Return

Place of death or wounding

Pozières, France

Date of Death

19/08/1916

Fate

KIA

Place of burial/memorial

No 2 Outpost Cemetery (Special Memorial 5), Gallipoli, Turkey

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Link to record

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