Name
Herbert (Bertie) Seymour Warwick
22 Jul 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/02/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15568
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn., attached 15th Trench Mortar Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GIAVERA BRITISH CEMETERY, ARCADE
Plot 2. Row E. Grave 3.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, The Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden, Batford Methodist Church Memorial, Batford, Wheathampstead village Memorial, Not on the St Albans memorials,
Pre War
Herbert (Bertie) Seymour was born in Linslade, Bucks on 22 Jul 1891 (baptised 29 Sep 1891) to Frederick Warwick, a groom (domestic), and Lizzie (nee Gibbs).
On the 1901 Census Bertie and the family of Parents, George (born 1887), Archibald (born 1889, Edith (born 1883), Nellie (Helen born 1893), Sidney (born 1895), Beatrice (born 1896), Wilfred (born 1898) and Hilda (born 1901) were living at High Street, Redbourn, Herts. On the 1911 census they were living at Batford Cottages, Wheathampstead, Bertie was employed as a contractor’s labourer: the family now consisted of Parents (Father Frederick was now a house painter), George (working in a Rubber factory), Helen (a Nurse), Sidney (a baker’s boy), Beatrice (a dairy girl), Wilfred, Hilda and additions Cyril (1904), Reginald (born and died 1907) and Mabel (also born1907).
The family later lived at Mill Cottages, Luton Road, Harpenden.
Wartime Service
Bertie volunteered for the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 15568. No Service Record was found for Bertie. He went to France on 12 May 1915 joining the 1st Battalion in Ypres, possibly taking part in the defence of Hill 60 in May 1915. 1st Bedfords also took part in Battles of the Somme in 1916 and were at Arras and Passchendaele in 1917.
The 1st Battalion Bedfords were transferred to the Italian Font in Dec 1917 in the aftermath of the Battle of Caporetto. At some time Bertie was attached to 15th Trench Mortar Battery. Bertie was killed in action on 7 Feb 1918 on the Italian Front.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £16 and arrears of £30 14s 11d paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk), Jonty Wild
