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Pte. Hedley Alfred Bird

British Army 16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

from:Scottow, Norfolk

(d.3rd Mar 1917)

Hedley Alfred Bird was born in Scottow, Norfolk on 22nd February 1895. In 1907, when Hedley was aged 12, his mother died of breast cancer and Hedley went to live with his grandparents and sister in Ivy House, Scottow, whose photograph he took to France with him during World War One. When war was declared in 1914, most of the village lads enlisted. Hedley enlisted when he was 20 in 1915 into the Royal Cheshire Regiment, 16th Battalion and did some training in Pocklington, Yorkshire. On March 3rd, 1917, after only three days in France, he was killed. He was just 22 years old. He is buried in Fouquescourt Cemetary, France.

Fouquescourt Cemetery, the countryside here is very much like Norfolk.



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