Name
Bertram Baines
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Bertram appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school.
Muriel Timbury, his niece, confirms that his parents were George and Emma Baines (née Cooper), who lived in one of Allen’s Cottages, the row of cottages opposite the pond, built by Sam Allen, but later, after being bought by Mr Palmer, known as Palmer’s Row. He had a younger brother Leonard George (b 1908) and two sisters, Alice (b 1890) and Gladys Ethel (b c1903). From this information records can be found that show that Bertram was born on October 28th 1892.
Before 1911 he worked as a farm labourer on the local farms, and is recorded in the Parish Magazine of July 1916 as enlisting in 1916 after March 2nd and serving in the Army Service Corps. He would have been about twenty-three. By 1918 he was recorded as Driver 196016, 38th Divisional Artillery Column, with his home address as ‘near Burge End’, a name then given to a much larger area of Pirton rather than just the current road.
After the war he became a bus conductor and lived in London with his wife Dinah. He died early in the nineteen sixties.
Additional Information
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission, Muriel Timbury, his niece
