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Nelson Hird (1920-1942)

Soldier
Service No:7936676
Rank:Trooper
Role:Dispatch Rider
Killed:10 Aug 1942
Burial:Carlisle (Dalston Road) Cemetery, Ward 11. Sec. P. Grave 39
Civilian
Residence:105 Raffles Avenue, Carlisle, Cumberland (1939)
Birth:registered Sep 1920 in Carlisle
Parents
Joseph HirdEdith May Williams
Birth 1900 in Carlisle.
Death (on active service) 22 Dec 1947.
Burial Carlisle (Dalston Road) Cemetery, Ward 11. Sec. P. 1. Grave 53 [Grave].

743214 Driver, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Birth 25 Sep 1895.
Death registered Jan 1996 in Carlisle (aged 100).
Marriage registered Mar 1920 in Carlisle, Cumberland.

Notes

Officially reported as 'Accidentally Killed'. Nelson, a dispatch rider, was in collision with an oncoming lorry on the Brighton Road, near Lewes, Sussex (the Regiment was moving from Plumpton Racecourse to Thetford on this day).

Article, Sussex Agricultural Express, 14 Aug 1942: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]