Name
Bertie Warwick
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/5502
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
VII. E. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Bertie Warwick was born in 1884 in Bishop's Stortford to John and Miriam Warwick and baptised on 29 October 1895 at Holy Trinity, Bishop's Stortford. On the 1901 Census he was living with his parents and brother Ernest in a cottage at South Street, Bishop's Stortford. Although his parents and Ernest were still living at 152 South Street, Bishop's Stortford, on the 1911 Census, Bertie was boarding at 70 South Street, Bishop's Stortford and working as a labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hatfield and served in the Bedfordshire Regiment in France from 11 November 1914. He died of wounds sustained in operations on the heights above the valley of the River Ancre.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £11 and pay owing of £34 7s 10d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
