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Sergeant ALAN WILLIAM PORTEOUS BIRD

Service Number: 401369
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

40 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Date of Death

Died 17 July 1941

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY

Plot K. Row 4. Grave 85.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of William and Lilias Gibson Bird, of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY
Noord-Holland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 167
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