ARCO regrets to inform its members of the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Birch, Church View, Rathangan, County Kildare. Peacefully, on 21st May 2022 after a short illness, surrounded by the love of his life Elizabeth and his children Jackie, Caroline, Rodney, Malcolm, Nicola and Brian. He will be dearly missed and lovingly remembered by his family, grandchildren Avril, Dara, Luke, Rebekah, Jesca, Sarah, Ronan, Fintan, Evan, Laoise, Skyler, Ella, and Theodora, great-grandson Oisin, sons-in-law Danny, Keith and Edmond, daughters-in-law Trish, Lucy and Gliria, relatives, Defence Forces colleagues and friends.
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Leland Gordon Birch was born on 17th May 1933 and was commissioned into the Defence Forces as a Direct Entry Engineer Officer on 4th April 1956. He served as a young officer in Limerick and later in the Army Apprentice School, Naas, County Kildare as the Chief Instructor. Gordon served in Cyprus with UNFICYP and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on 7th August 1986.
Reposing in Kildare Funeral Home, Fairgreene, Kildare, on Tuesday from 5p.m. until 7p.m. Cremation will take place on Wednesday at 12 noon in Newlands Cross Crematorium, Dublin.
Donations, in lieu of flowers, to Rathangan Day Care Centre.
Members may wish to leave personal messages in the ‘Condolences’ section of Gordon’s death notice on rip.ie – https://rip.ie/death-notice/lt.-col.-gordon-birch-rathangan-kildare/496670
