Basic Details
Surname
Redding
Forenames
Bertie
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
29761
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 50 Queen's Road, Old Fletton.

(CWGC records that Private Bertie Redding, regimental number 29761, died on 15/11/1916 serving in 7th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Face 2C of Thiepval Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Bertie Redding as a native of Peterborough who was living in Old Fletton when he enlisted. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Annie W Redding was his legatee. His birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1885 as "Bertie Redding"; he was baptised at Fletton on 15/3/1889 as the son of John and Mary Ann Redding. Bertie's father John Redding had died in Peterborough District in 1887; his widow Mary Ann Redding married James Woods in Huntingdon District in 1888. On the 1891 census Bertie was recorded under the surname "Woods", living with his mother Mary & her 2nd husband James Woods at the Gate House in Hawston Road, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. On the 1901 census Bertie was recorded under his own surname Redding, staying as a visitor with Mary & James Woods in Rotherhithe, London. On the 1911 census he was recorded as Bertie Redding, living with his mother Mary and her husband James Woods at 16 Queen's Road, Old Fletton, Peterborough; his mother's sister Agnes Wright was also in the household. Bertie Reddings's marriage to Annie Ward Stimpson was registered in Peterborough District in 1912; they married at Fletton on 27/5/1912).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Bedfords
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
7th
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1916
Month of death
November
Day of death
15
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action on the Somme
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Address
50 QUEENS ROAD OLD FLETTON
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial