George Trevor's Story.
Birkenhead News 29 June 1918HOYLAKE FAMILY’S SAD BEREAVEMENT.
The widow and family of the late Councillor Richard Bird, of Hoylake, have received news of the death in action of Private George Thomas Bird, serving with the Liverpool Scottish. He was killed on the 19th instant, being in the bay of a front line trench with a sergeant and some others when a shell burst among them, killing nearly the whole party immediately. It appears from the statement of one who visited the temporary mortuary in a dug-out that death was instantaneous; the features were peaceful and there was no trace of pain.
Private Bird, who was in his 26th year, was educated at Calday Grange Grammar School before entering the firm of Messrs. Ingleby and Lloyd, cotton merchants, of Liverpool, and without doubt abandoned brilliant prospects for the hard service which he followed so faithfully to the end. For two and half years he had been in France without a break, and was almost daily expected home on short leave. He leaves a widow and one child. Mrs. Bird’s four surviving sons are in the Army. Staff-Sergt. Jesse Bird and Corpl. Douglas Bird are home on leave for a few days. There is universal sympathy with the grief of the family, who are long standing in the neighbourhood and have rendered both public and private service to the community.