Major Thomas Arthur Bird DSO, MC & Bar (11 August 1918 – 9 August 2017) was a distinguished British soldier and architect whose inspirational command of the anti-tank company (‘S’ Company) of 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, at Outpost Snipe during the Second Battle of El Alamein helped destroy the armoured counter-attack of General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. He later became a noted architect working in collaboration with Richard Tyler from 1955–85.
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11 August 1918
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Died |
9 August 2017 (aged 98)
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Zodiac | Leo |
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