Name
Douglas Bentley
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/04/1917
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TR9/6444
Training Reserve
26th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOVERCOURT (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
II. G. 17.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Nuthampstead Plaque, St Mary Magdalene Church, Barkway, Not on the Barkway memorial (*1)
Pre War
Douglas Bentley was born in 1898 in Nuthampsted, nr Royston, Herts, the son of Walter and Charlotte Bentley and one of nine children but one died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in Nuthampstead, where his father was working as a yardman on a cattle farm. They remained there in 1911 at which time Douglas was a schoolboy and his father a farm stockman.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford, joining the Bedfordshire Regiment and was placed with the 26th Training Reserve Battalion.
He died from illness in hospital at Dovercourt, Essex on 20 April 1917 and was buried in Dovercourt (All Saints) Churchyard five days later.
Additional Information
A war gratuity was not admissible but his father received pay owing of £2 13s 6d. Pension cards exist with his mother as dependant but do not show the amount of pension paid.
*1 The memorial for the Nuthampstead men is in the church in Barkway, so far no direct connection to Barkway has been found.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
