Private Herbert Arthur Bird

Army Number: 26189

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Herbert and Mary Ann Bird, of 2 Aberdeen Street, Sneinton, Nottingham. Husband of Kate Bird, of 6 Park Place, Park Road, Nottingham. He was an outdoor porter prior to enlisting 19th May 1915 at Nottingham and went to Gallipoli 14th November 1915. He went to France and was killed in action, 21st August 1917, whilst a member of a carrying party near Steenbeke, Belgium. 

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private Herbert Arthur Bird is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Nicholas Church War Memorial, Nottingham. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.