{"id":6938,"date":"2025-04-18T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:09:56","slug":"bird-a-e-pte-2nd-royal-sussex-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/bird-a-e-pte-2nd-royal-sussex-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird A E Pte 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6939\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-A-E-Pte-2nd-Royal-Sussex-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6939\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6939\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-A-E-Pte-2nd-Royal-Sussex-Regiment-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-A-E-Pte-2nd-Royal-Sussex-Regiment-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-A-E-Pte-2nd-Royal-Sussex-Regiment.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bird A E Pte 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BIRD, ALAN ERNEST, Private, 2nd Battn. (35th Foot) The Royal Sussex Regt.), yr. s. of Robert Bird, of Nutty&#8217;s Farm, Childerditch, near Brentwood, Farmer, by his his wife, Fanny, dau. of Henry Crossman of Ivy Thorn House, Street, co. Somerset; b. Walton, near Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 1 Aug. 1898; educ. Ray Lodge County Council School, Woodford; joined the 4th Royal Sussex Regt. 4 July, 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 Oct. following, being transferred to the 2nd Battn., and died at a Casualty Clearing Station 4 Nov. of the same year, of wounds received in action on the Sambre Canal on that day. Buried in La Val\u00e9e Militaire Communal Cemetery Extension; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRD, ALAN ERNEST, Private, 2nd Battn. (35th Foot) The Royal Sussex Regt.), yr. s. of Robert Bird, of Nutty&#8217;s Farm, Childerditch, near Brentwood, Farmer, by his his wife, Fanny, dau. of Henry Crossman of Ivy Thorn House, Street, co. Somerset; b. Walton, near Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 1 Aug. 1898; educ. Ray Lodge County Council School, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-sussex-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}