Name
Bertie John Oakley
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/05/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
9965
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. D. 42.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials, Cross Marsworth. Bucks., Paque, All Saints Church, Marsworth, Bucks.
Pre War
Bertie John Oakley was born in 1895 in Marsworth, Bucks., to John Oakley, farm labourer, and Ellen (nee Pickering).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Francis G (born 1886, farm labourer), Sidney J (born 1891), Florence A (born 1890), Arthur W (born 1894), Bertie, and Edgar (born 1898) were living at Church Road, Marsworth, Bucks.
Bertie’s father John died in 1904.
On the 1911 Census Bertie, a farm labourer, was living with his mother, Edward (horse keeper on farm, born ), Sidney (farm labourer), Arthur (cow boy on farm), Lewis (born 1898), Beatrice (born 1902) and Leonard (born 1904) at Startops End, Marsworth.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Bertie who enlisted in 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in Aug 1914 as Private 9965. At some time Bertie was promoted to Lance Corporal.
He went to France on 23 Nov 1914 to his Battalion at Ypres as part of 5 Brigade, 2nd Division. He took part in Winter Operations around Ypres (Nov 1914- Feb 1915) and the Battle of Festubert (15-25 May 1915), it may have been during this last action that Bertie was wounded and although evacuated and treated he died on 24 May 1915 at No 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £5 and arrears of £1 13s 4d was paid to his mother Ellen.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
