Name
Bertie Pegram
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/09/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Stoker
K/12076
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Pembroke"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WALKERN (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Westmill
Pre War
Bertie was born in Westmill on 24 Jul 1893, the son of John and Eliza Pegram, of School Lane. He had 2 elder and one younger brothers. In the 1911 census his occupation is recorded as Cement Works Labourer.
Wartime Service
Bertie enlisted in the Royal Navy as a stoker. Bertie died of wounds as a result of an air raid by German Gotha bombers on Chatham Barracks on the night of 3rd/4th September 1917. HMS Pembroke, where Bertie was serving at the time, was a shore based training establishment.
Acknowledgments
Nigel Leaney
