Name:
Derry Gates Bird
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Serial Number:
R/145007
Unit:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1943-06-12
State:
Ohio
Cemetery:
Runnymede Memorial, Englefield Green, Runnymede Borough, Surrey, England
Plot:
Panel 181
Row:
Grave:
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Comments:
Derry Gates Bird was born on March 14, 1904, in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. He was the son of James Bird and Margaret Arnold Gates Bird.
Derry served in the #28 Operational Training of the Royal Air Force during World War II. Aboard the Wellington aircraft # R 1324, he went missing over the North Sea during a sea search on June 12, 1943.
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