Name
Louis Albert (Bertie) Burch
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/15207
Royal Sussex Regiment
11th Bn.
"C" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St. John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldbury, Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute Memorial, Aldbury
Pre War
Born in 1893 son of George and Eliza Burch. He was baptised on 5th March 1893 in Aldbury.
His father died when he was 2 yrs old. In 1901, aged 8, he was living with his widowed mother in the village.
By 1911 he was working as a farm labourer living in Trooper Lane, Aldbury.
Wartime Service
Enlisted into the Bedfordshire Regiment (No 26614) before being transferred to the 11/Sussex Regt.
Listed as Killed in Action during the Somme offensive on the attack in the Redoubt Sector.
Acknowledgments
Jo Bayley
Jo Bayley
