Name
Bertie Field
9 September 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/04/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5702
Norfolk Regiment
3rd/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BALDOCK CEMETERY
214
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Bertie Field was born in Baldock on 9 September 1896, the youngest son of Alfred and Lydia Field (nee Langham), and one of ten children, although one died in infancy. He was baptised on 18 October 1896 in Baldock.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Norton Road, Baldock, where his father was working as a farm labourer. They remained there in 1911 at which time both Bertie and his father were working as farm labourers.
His parents later lived at 32 Cemetery Road, Baldock, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served with the 3rd/4th Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. The Baldock Memorial lists him as being attached to the Bedfordshire Regiment.
Bertie died from tuberculosis at the Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge on 4 April 1916 and is buried in Baldock Cemetery, Herts.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of 9s 8d. His mother received a pension of 5s a week.
Brother to Albert Field who served with the Royal Field Artillery and was killed in action on 14 April 1917. Brother to Margaret Field who died in an accident when she was struck by an RAF aircraft as it took off from a field in Letchworth in 1918.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
