Name
Bertie Osborne
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/08/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19670
Dorsetshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
VI. E. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY HIS EVERLOVING MOTHER R.I.P.
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
Bishop's Stortford Methodist Church Memorial(*1),
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford(*1),
Pre War
Bertie was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1888 to John and Mary Ann Osborne and baptised at Holy Trinity, Bishop's Stortford on 25 March 1888.
In 1891 the family were living at the village of Sacombe, near Hertford but had moved to Bells Hill, Bishop' s Stortford by 1901. On the 1911 Census Bertie was living with his family at 12 Middle Row, Newtown, Bishop's Stortford and working as a Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Bishop's Stortford, initially serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment under service no. 31722, later transferring to the Dorsetshire Regiment.
Bertie was one of several casualties of the Dorsetshire Regiment to be killed or wounded in an attack on 11 August near Amiens.
Additional Information
His father John was awarded a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £11 9s 3d.
His mother, Mrs M A Osborne of 31 Castle St, Bishop's Stortford, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY HIS EVERLOVING MOTHER R.I.P."
*1 There are two Bertie Osbornes appearing on the Bishop’s Stortford Town memorial, but at present we believe the name only appears once on each of the Methodist Church and Holy Trinity Church memorials. We cannot say which man appears on each or whether the same man appears on both. It seems likely that each man was associated with a different church and therefore their memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
