Name
Bertie George Marlow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/06/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3845
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
4 Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
V. E. 45.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, Great Offley Village Memorial, St Mary Magdalene's Church Memorial, Great Offley, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
He was the son of Mary Marlow of Offley.
He was born in Offley and lived there. He enlisted in Hertford
Wartime Service
Bertie served in 4 Company of the Regiment and was allocated Regimental number 3845.
According to the Parish Magazine, he was killed instantly when a shell landed in a trench though the official records state that he died of wounds.
If there was time to try to treat his wounds, he would have been admitted to No. 33 Casualty Clearing Station in Bethune. The Regiment was part of the 118th Brigade in the 39th Division. According to the Regimental history, in the Spring and Summer of 1916, they were not involved in any important engagements.
At the beginning of March they were at Ebbingham a few miles east of GHQ at St. Omer and for the next few months were probably used in support, relief and to provide working parties where necessary for other units situated nearer the front. This would account for men being killed in the area of Festubert between May and early August and north of Ploegsteert in mid-August 1916.
He was buried in Plot V, Row E, Grave 45 in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
