Name
Bertram William Froy
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/02/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30592
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
"D" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
Born in Hitchin and attended Hitchin British Boys' School. He was resident in Hitchin, he worked in Letchworth.
He enlisted in Bedford. His wife, Elizabeth Jane, lived at 3, Seymour's Yard Hitchin and they had two children, the eldest being aged eight years. Another home address was shown as Ivy Hill, Queen St. Hitchin.
The CWGC gives her address as 51, Lonsdale Road, Bayswater, London, but by that time she had remarried and had the surname ‘Hulbert’.
Wartime Service
Bertram was given Regimental Number 30592. He joined in June 1916 and went to France in November 1916. He was in ‘D’ Company of the 4th Battalion and was killed in action in France.
At first he was reported as missing but his death was confirmed in September 1917. On the 11th February 1917, south of the River Ancre, the Battalion was ordered to advance to the left of the 188th Brigade line, but owing to wire, which had not been located previously, the attack was only partially successful and 70 casualties were incurred.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Pier 2 Face C of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild