374066, Private, Bertram Silas TURNER
Aged 25
no medal card
301st (Welsh) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died of Illness on Thursday 4th July 1918
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Born in Newmarket in Q3-1893 [Newmarket 3b:498], 3rd son of Alfred Hales and Mary Elizabeth TURNER (née PETCH) of 55 St Philips Road
, Newmarket.
1901 census...Bertram [7] was at 55 St.Philips Road, Newmarket with his father Alfred [41] a shoeing smith born Isleham, his mother Mary [39] born Isleham, , sisters Ethel [14] and Olive [13] and brothers Alfred [15] and Victor [10] all born in Isleham, and his grandmother [67] Eunice PETCH and aunt [37] Eunice Petch. 1911 census...Bertram Silas [17], a grocer's assistant at Layngs, High Street, Newmarket, was living at 9 Bath Terrace, Newmarket with his parents, sisters Ethel Mary and Olive Julia, and brothers Victor Stephen a draper's hosier and Alfred James [25], a grocer's assistant. He enlisted in Walthamstow, London and died of pneumonia at Colchester General Military Hospital (Colchester 4a/706). His brother Alfred was killed in 1917.. see here |
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No medal index card has been found for Bertram which indicates he did not serve overseas, which is in line with his unit, a Home Service unit. The 301st (Welsh)
Field Ambulance did however disband in January 1918
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