Name
Bertram Stevenette
20 May 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/06/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
Z/2977
Rifle Brigade
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POTIJZE CHATEAU WOOD CEMETERY
D. 9.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial, Memorial to the Fallen, Newark on Trent, Notts, WW1 Roll, Peterborough Hospital, Cambs.
Pre War
Bertram (Bertie) Stevenette was born on 20 May 1894 in Newark upon Trent, Notts., to Walter Sydney Stevenette, clerk, and Charlotte Adeliza (nee Cooke).
There was a son, Richard Coke Stevenette (born 1893, died 1893).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Bertie and his twin sister Gladys May (born 20 May 1894), were living at 10. Bernard street, Carrington, Nottingham.
The baptism of the twins Bertie and Gladys took place on 14 Sep 1906 at St John the Baptist, Beeston, Notts. The family were living at 42, Cromwell Road Beeston.
On the 1911 Census, Bertie was a timber merchant clerk and Gladys was a shorthand typist, living with their mother at Clyde Lodge, Bearton Road, Hitchin, Herts.
Bertie’s father died in 1915 in London.
Bertie was a clerk at Ellis & Everard and lived at West Lodge, Letchworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
Bertie enlisted on 11 Sep 1914 and was posted to Rifle Brigade Depot at Winchester on 15 Sep 1914 as Rifleman Z/2977 giving his home address as ‘Ellesmere’, Lytton Avenue, Letchworth and on 21 Sep 1914 was posted into 5th (Reserve) Battalion for training. He went to France on 26 Jan 1915 to 1st Battalion (Service Record indistinct) in the field at Ypres as part of 11 Brigade, 4th Division and was wounded in Mar 1915.
On 11 May 1915 he returned to UK Depot and was posted again into the 5th (Reserve) Battalion for machine gun training. He was posted to 12 (Service) Battalion, 60th Brigade in 20th (Light) Division on 20 Oct 1915. The division took part in The Battle of Mount Sorrel (2-13 Jun 1915) in the Ypres Sector capturing the Height together with Canadian troops.
Bertie was Killed in action on 30 Jun 1916 and buried together with 5 other ranks of his machine gun crew killed that day by an artillery shell.
Letter to mother in Citizen, witnessed ship explosion at Sheerness (HMS Princess Irene - 352 killed). Killed in action and due on leave the day he was killed.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £8 was paid to his mother, unusually there is no record of arrears.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
