Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Acting Warrant Officer E. Bird, Hampshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (7912 Cpl., Hamps. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (7912 A.W.O. Cl.2, Hamps. R.) together with Memorial Plaque (Ernest Bird)

Pair: Private E. Bird, Lancashire Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (33486 Pte., Lan. Fus.); together with related Memorial Plaque (James Bird), an identity tag and three badges, extremelly fine (10) £120-160

Ernest Bird was born and lived in Bridgewater, Somerset and enlisted at Bishops Waltham. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 9 August 1916. He was buried in Potijze Chateau Wood Cemetery, Ieper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.