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Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Colin Ray Bird

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Military service

Service number: R/115881
Age: 22
Rank: Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber)
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 115 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: October 17, 1920 Lashburn, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: August 8, 1941 Saskatchewan
Death: March 3, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Coll. grave 11. F. 12-13.
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Son of Charles Joseph and Nellie Ethel Bird, of Lashburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. Agricultural Diploma, University Silver Medal and Silver Cup for Oratorical Contest (Saskatchewan University).

Twin brother of Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Sydney Dennis Bird, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 137 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY Germany

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY is 13 km south east of Soltau on the west side of the road from Hamburg to Hannover.

From Hannover travel north in the direction of Hamburg on the Autoroute No.7 for 80 km until the junction with Soltau Sud, this is in fact the junction of the A7 with the B3 Hannover to Hamburg road.

On leaving the A7 at Soltau Sud follow the B3 in the direction of Celle and Bergen. The cemetery is on the right hand side of the road, 7 Km from the motorway junction.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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