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- Lieutenant Birks served with 2nd Field
Ambulance on Gallipoli and went on the win the Military Medal at
Pozieres in July 1916.
- Five months before his death he was
commissioned as subaltern of the 6th battalion. He died in September
1917 east of Ypres, Belgium, and was awarded the Victoria Cross
posthumously for his `conspicuous bravery'.
- This is a photo of a painting
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