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• Name BYRD
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Broad Campden
• Country Gloucestershire
• Family Son of Benjamin Henry and Alice Byrd, of Broad-Campden, Campden, Glos. One sister, Mary; two brothers, Samuel and Henry; his brother Samuel joined the Gloucestershire Regiment
• Profession licensee of the Angel Inn in Broad Campden
• Extra info Commemorated in Chipping Campden: in St. James’s Church and in the High Street

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 23 May 1916, Bristol
• Service number 24344
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 159th Coy. Labour Corps
• Attached or transferred from 10th (Labour) - Bn. - Royal Berkshire Regiment
• Other data related to military career Arrived in France June 1916; in Belgium October 1917; also served with the Labour Corps (n° 94864)

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel in the side, back and arm in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 1 November 1917
• Died at the age of 39
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - CC - 18

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