Regiment: R.N.V.R..
Died: 01 March 1942 aged 39 in Java sea. Killed in action.
Cemetery: Plymouth Naval Memorial Panel 76, Column 3.
Son of Mrs. Bird, c/o Brown, Shipley & Co., 123 Pall Mall.
H.M.S. Exeter. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Noted Ornitholigist.
Spoke Norwegian and acted as Intelligence Officer during attack on Norway.
Killed in action when H.M.S. Exeter was sunk by Japanese surface craft in the Java sea.
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