Name
Bertie Wenham Wycherley
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1915
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1998
Monmouthshire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 50.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Shenley Memorial
Pre War
Bertie Wenham Wycherley was born in Shenley on 15 February 1889, the son of John and Emma Wycherley, and one of two children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Buckettsland Farm, Shenley, where his father was working as a coachman domestic (servant). They had moved to Otham, Kent by 1901 and were living at Bugle Horn Cottages, and Bertie was a 12 year old schoolboy. He attended the St John the Evangelist School in Camden from 14 June 1893 at which time the family were living at 85 High Holborn, London but left the school on 1 December 1893 when the family left the neighbourhood.
His father died in early 1911 in Maidstone and on the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed mother and younger brother Charles at the Bell Inn, Linton, Maidstone, Kent, where his mother was the public house keeper and he was working as a fitter in a steel works.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Abergavenny, and served with the Monmouthshire Regiment in France from 13 February 1915.
He was killed in action on 3 May 1915, aged 27. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £4 14s 7d was divided equally between his mother and his brother Charles. Records indicate that his mother was refused a pension.
Brother Charles served with the Royal West Kent Regiment and drowned in Mesopotamia on 11 January 1918. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
