Name
Bertie Leonard Bunn
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
328332
Suffolk Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. E. 36.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Leonard's Church Lychgate, Sandridge, Ind. plaque on pew, St Leonard's Lychgate, Sandridge, Not on the Colney Heath memorials
Pre War
Born in Sandridge, Hertfordshire and lived at Church End, Sandridge (1901 & 1911). His parents were Frederick & Susan Bunn. He Was Baptised on 31 Jul 1898.
The 1901 census records that Bertie (2) lived with his parents, his brother Frederick (5) and two sisters Rose (8) and Hilda (6 months). By 1911 the census would appear to indicate that Frederick and Rose had moved out of the family home. It also records two further siblings Winnie (5) and William (2). However, the 1911 census has no record of Hilda, who may have passed away.
The Herts Advertiser of the time reported Bertie as living in Colney Heath, although the exact whereabouts are unknown.
It would appear from records that Bertie may have joined the army directly after leaving school.
Additional Information
Bertie’s brother Frederick also perished in the Great War and is remembered on the Sandridge memorial, however there is no record of Bertie on the same memorial. Two Effects entries totalling £13 2s 9d which was paid to mother. His medal card records his unit differently to all other records, it states his Regiment was 2nd Cambs.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Sarah Burns
Graham Clark – World War One – The Fallen of London Colney, Grace Clark, Jonty Wild
