Harry Cecil BIRD

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Service Number:	VX67105
Enlisted:	29 December 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Australian Army Canteen Service
Born:	Caulfield, Victoria, 20 April 1917
Home Town:	Caulfield North, Glen Eira, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 20 July 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1, Row H, Grave 62, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

29 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Private, VX67105, Caulfield, Victoria
29 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX67105
20 Jul 1943:	Involvement Sergeant, VX67105, Australian Army Canteen Service, Prisoners of War

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Son of Cecil George and Annie Lumley Bird of Caulfied; husband of Marjorie Mabel Bird of Hampton, Victoria

Was a member of Sparrow Force

Died while Prisoner of War of the Japanese.