Basic Details
Surname
Wood
Forenames
Bertram
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. He was the pianist at the Sunday School and worked for a worsted spinners. He enlisted in September 1914 and was wounded in the unsuccessful attack on the Schwaben Redoubt on September 3rd 1916 in which many of this regiment were killed: he died of his wounds the following day. He is also commemorated on IWM 2822.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Somme
Country of burial
France
Town of burial
Forceville
Cemetery
Communal Cemetery
Year of death
1916
Month of death
September
Day of death
4
Age at death
23
Manner of death as stated
Died of wounds
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds