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Bird, Ashley Hinckes, son of Arthur Hinckes Bird, L. S. A., of Chelsea, by Kate, daughter of John Clark, of the same place; b. April 22, 1893; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); migrated up Rigaud's; left July 1912; Magd. Coll. Oxon. matric. Michaelmas 1912; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers Sept. 14, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. Lincs. Regt. Nov. 27, 1914; Lieut. July 1, 1917; Capt.; wounded at Gallipoli 1915, on the Somme 1916, and at Arras 1917; M.A. (Oxon.) 1920; entered Wye Coll., Kent, Oct. 1922; Dip. Hort. (Wye) 1924; staff 1924; secy. and bursar 1932-45; m. April 26, 1916, Cicely, daughter of Arthur Hutchinson, of Grantham.

Bird, Clifford Gordon, son of Charles Ellis Bird, of London, solicitor, by Ellen Lancaster, daughter of Alexander Henderson; b. Oct. 15, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left July 1894; St. Edmund Hall, Oxon., matric. Lent 1899; B.A. 1902; entered the South African Civil Service; seconded to the S. W. African Administration as Public Trustee; retired 1925; Senior Announcer, South African Broadcasting Corpn., Cape Town 1925-42; Property Manager of the Board of Executors, Cape Town; served in the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War 1900, and as Capt., Cape Garrison Artillery, in Great War I; m. June 24, 1911, Joan Elizabeth, daughter of Andries Petrus Brink, of Worcester, Cape Province; d. 1947.

Bird, Clifton Avery, brother of John Henry Benbow Bird (qv); b. 30 May 1912; adm. Apr. 1926 (A); left July 1929; RNVR 1942-5 (Lieut. (E)); a co. director in New Caledonia; d. 27 Dec. 1966.

BIRD, EDWARD GORDON, brother of Elphinstone William Bird (qv); b. 29 Jul 1847; adm. (G) 27 Sep 1860; QS 30 Jan 1863; left Whitsun 1864; d. 30 Oct 1868.

BIRD, ELPHINSTONE WILLIAM, son of James Bird FRCP MRCS, Hyde Park Square, London, sometime Surgeon, EICS Bombay, and Physician-Gen. to Bombay Medical Board, and Georgina Elizabeth Craig Taylor, Bombay, India (dau. of George Taylor : EICS ?]; b. 7 Aug 1846; adm. (G) 20 Jan 1860; QS 1861; left Oct 1863; d. 6 Mar 1873.

Bird, Eric Hinckes, brother of Ashley Hinckes Bird (q.v.); b. Sept. 27, 1894; adm. Jan. 17, 1907 (R); left July 1912; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 4, 1912; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Aug. 30, 1914; temp. Lieut. Feb. 11 - April 15, 1915; "Lieut. April 16, 1915; was invalided home after some six months on the western front; subsequently attached to the 25th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, and returned to France in June 1916; d. June 27, 1916, of wounds received in an air fight on the western front the previous day.

Bird, John Henry Benbow, son of Sidney Arthur Bird (qv); b. 13 Oct. 1907; adm. Sept. 1922 (A); left Mar. 1926; Brit. Coaling Depots Ltd, Port Said; killed in a yachting accident.

BIRD, SIDNEY ARTHUR, son of Henry Bird, Uxbridge, Middlesex; b. 20 Jan 1864; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1877; QS 1878; left Dec 1881; man. dir., The Century Trust; m. 6 Jun 1904 Norah Agnes Sarah Jane, dau. of Alexander Patrick McClery; d. 6 Sep 1929.

Birdwood, Christopher Travers, son of Francis Travers Birdwood, of Ealing, Middlesex, solicitor, by Amy, daughter of Halsall Segar, of Huyton, Lancs; b. Aug. 25, 1894; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left Dec. 1912; Lieut. 3rd Batt. Devonshire Regt. March 5, 1918; was twice wounded in 1917; attached to Staff in France until the end of the war; subsequently Intelligence Officer with the Army of Occupation at Cologne until Aug. 1919; on the staff of Brunner Mond & Co., Shanghai, 1920-28; of Fairplay Publications Ltd., London, 1929-53; m. Nov. 3, 1923, Martha Mary, daughter of Charles Brooks, of Marlborough, Wilts.

Birdwood, Felix Tolcher, brother of Christopher Travers Birdwood (q.v.); b. May 20, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); K.S. 1912; left Easter 1915; 2nd Lieut., unattached, Nov. 15, 1915; 36th Sikhs, later 4/11th Sikh Regt., Nov. 19, 1915; Lieut. Nov. 15, 1916; Capt. Nov. 15, 1919; served on the Mohmand Frontier 1915, in Mesopotamia 1916-20, and Waziristan 1921-3; Staff College, Quetta, 1929-30; served on Khajuri Plain, N. W. Frontier, 1931; Major Nov. 15, 1933; Lieut.-Col. Feb. 1, 1940; served in India, Iraq and Burma; O.B.E. 1946; retired Nov. 6, 1947, with rank of Col. and resided in Southern Rhodesia; m. Jan. 15, 1926, Louise Jesse Harriet, daughter of William Lamond, of Richmond, Surrey; d. 18 Apr. 1987.