Notes
The Roll lists his address as 11 Globe Street, and that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It wrongly records that he died on 7/7/1917 in the Battle of the Dunes.
(CWGC records that Private Thomas Bird, regimental number 14313, died on 31/7/1917 serving in the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment; he is commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise records that he died on 31/7/1917. The Medal Rolls record that he went to France on 26/7/1915, and was killed on 31/7/1917; he was awarded the 1914-15 Star Medal, and the British & Victory War medals. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action in Belgium on 31/7/1917, and that his mother Eliza A Bird was his legatee. When Thomas' death was announced on 8/9/1917 in the Peterborough Advertiser, he was reported as having died on 31st July, having previously been wounded in June 1916).