Notes
The Roll lists his address as 11 Globe Street, Peterborough. It wrongly states he died 7/6/1918.
(CWGC records that Private Sidney Bird, regimental number 20747, was serving in 1st/5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment when he died on 18/8/1916, and that he is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise records that Sidney died on 18/8/1916; it also records that he was formerly of the Hunts Cyclist Battalion, regimental number 820. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that when he died in France on 18th/19th August 1916 he was of the 1st Hunts Cyclist Battalion, serving on attachment with the 5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment; his father Thomas was his legatee).