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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.

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.

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.

Blair, Alec Michael Ambler, son of Alec Hood Blair, of Westminster, and Grace Evelyn, d. of John Ambler of Bradford, Yorks; b. 10 Jan. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1937; Worcester Coll. Oxf., matric. 1938; d. 1970.

Blair, Charles James Longworth, son of Charles Samuel Blair, M. D., F.R.C.S., of Claygate, Surrey, by Mary Alice, daughter of James Henry Longworth, of Fulwood, Lancs; b. June 21, 1893; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left July 1912; served as temp. Surgeon-Lieut. in the Navy during Great War I 1917-8; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1917; in practice as an ophthalmic surgeon in London and at the Royal Hospital, Richmond, Surrey; m. Dec. 27, 1918, Lilian Edith Berry, daughter of William Frederick Steege, of Twickenham, Middlesex.

Blizard, Gray Percy, son of George Blizard, of London, architect; b. Aug. 2, 1889; adm. Jan. 16, 1902 (A); migrated up Rigaud's; left Easter 1903; readm; Sept. 28, 1905; left Dec. 1907; served as a gunner in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Great War I.

Blount, Maurice Bertie, twin brother of Arthur Stanley Blount (q.v.); b. Dec. 14, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (A); left July 1904; served in Great War I as trooper in King Edward's Horse, Canadian Overseas Force; invalided Jan. 1917.

Bloxam, Robert Basil Reginald, son of Robert Henry Raynsford Bloxam, of Ryde, I. O. W., by Lily, daughter of James Castle Cass, of Barnsley, Yorks.; b. Sept. 11. 1896; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left July 1913; technical author (naval ordnance) with Vickers, Ltd., Naval Construction Works, Barrow-in-Furness; m. Aug. 28, 1928, Elizabeth Jean, daughter of Alfred Bird, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Bloom, Albert Edward, son of Henry Bloom, of Hampstead, by Rebecca, daughter of Louis Halle, of Hampstead; b. May 27, 1902; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (A); left July 1918; an electrical engineer; 2nd Lieut. London Divisional R. A. S. C. (T. A.) March 4, 1939; Capt. Oct. 23, 1939; mentioned in despatches (France and Belgium) L. G. Dec. 20, 1940; T. D. 1950; 1st clasp to T. D. 1953; m. Jan. 5, 1926, Sybil Edna, daughter of Max Bickley, of Hampstead; d. 7 Apr. 1986.