{"id":6942,"date":"2025-04-18T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:12:45","slug":"bird-b-pte-15502-machine-gun-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/bird-b-pte-15502-machine-gun-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird B Pte 15502 Machine Gun Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRD, BERTIE, Private, No. 15502, 6th Battn. Machine Gun Corps, 3rd s. of James Bird, of Little Cornard, Sudbury, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Rivers; b. Boxted, 28 June, 1899; educ. Great Cornard County Council School; joined the London Regt. 29 Nov. 1917; was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in April: served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 2 July, 1918, and died at No. 16 General Hospital, Tr\u00e9port, 22 Oct. following, of wounds and gas poisoning. Buried in Mont Huon Cemetery; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRD, BERTIE, Private, No. 15502, 6th Battn. Machine Gun Corps, 3rd s. of James Bird, of Little Cornard, Sudbury, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Rivers; b. Boxted, 28 June, 1899; educ. Great Cornard County Council School; joined the London Regt. 29 Nov. 1917; was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-gun-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","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=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}