NAME Harry Bird
BORN 9 March 1884 London, England
DIED ?
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 2924
UNIT 36th Battalion
ENLISTED Rutherford 10 November 1916
DISCHARGED Sydney 20 May 1918 – Medically unfit after being gassed

 Harry Bird made an enquiry about attending Grantham Stud Poultry Farm for training in poultry farming on 26 May 1919 with approval eventually being given on 8 August 1919 for him to attend.[1]  On 1 November 1919, he enquired about obtaining a block at Chipping Norton or Hillview asking, ‘are these open to the ballot or the preferential right system (as it) applies’?[2]  He was allocated a block at Hillview taking possession on 10 May 1920.[3]  The block of six acres was in the County of Cumberland, Parish of St Luke, Parramatta Land District. 

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW:  Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/7052 Loan number unknown], Harry Bird to  Mr. G. R. Bryant, Director of SS 26 May 1919;   Approval to join Grantham 8 August 1919.

[2] Ibid, Harry Bird to Mr. G.R. Bryant, 26 August 1920.

[3] Ibid, RSS Branch Office Memorandum 17 August 1922.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW:  Lands Department;  NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files;  [12/7052 Loan number unknown], Harry Bird.

National Archives of Australia:  B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Harry Bird) online: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3084488