Name
Louis Albert (Bertie) Burch
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/15207
Royal Sussex Regiment
11th Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St. John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldbury, Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute Memorial, Aldbury
Pre War
Louis Albert BURCH (known as Bertie) was born in Aldbury, Hertfordshire, in 1893, son of George and Eliza Burch.
He was baptised on 5th March 1893 in Aldbury, Herts. His father died when he was 2 yrs old.
1901 Census, he is recorded as Bertie, aged 8, and at school, living with his widowed mother, brother's John (18), George (9) and sister Bessie (17), in the village of Aldbury, Herts..
By 1911 he was working as a farm labourer living with his widowed mother, Brother George and sister, in Trooper Lane, Aldbury, Herts.
Wartime Service
Enlisted into the Bedfordshire Regiment issued with the service No. 26614, before being transferred to the 11th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment with the new service No. G/15207.
Listed as Killed in Action during the Somme offensive on the attack in the Redoubt Sector on 21st October 1916, aged 23. He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing. Pier and Face 7 C. (Battle of the Somme 1st July to 18th November 1916).
Additional Information
His mother Eliza received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 21st August 1917, and his effects of £3-12s-10d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
Acknowledgments
Jo Bayley, Stuart Osborne
Jo Bayley
