Our Diggers in profile: Edgar Rayner Bird
Edgar Rayner Bird
Service Number: 11440
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Rank: Driver
Unit: 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Service: Australian Army
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of death: 07 November 1916
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Died of wounds
Age at death: 27
Place of association: Port Macquarie, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Edgar Rayner Bird's name is located atpanel 13 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Edgar Rayner Bird's name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory on:
- Sat 4 April, 2015 at 1:21 am
- Wed 20 May, 2015 at 8:05 pm
- Wed 1 July, 2015 at 7:21 pm
- Fri 14 August, 2015 at 3:27 am
- Sat 3 October, 2015 at 4:05 am
- Thu 3 December, 2015 at 12:17 am
- Sun 31 January, 2016 at 2:55 am
- Mon 28 March, 2016 at 4:35 am
- Sat 14 May, 2016 at 9:56 pm
- Sun 26 June, 2016 at 1:29 am
These dates and times are estimates.
