Private 91701 Bertie Marsh
Regiment/Unit: Durham Light Infantry - 1st/5th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 290527 Pembroke Yeo.
Age at death: 19
Date of death: 31st of May 1918
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Soissons Memorial -
Family details:
Father: James.
Census details:
1901 - 2 years old Bertie is living at 162, Westfield Street, St Helens at the home of his great aunt with parents. The household consists of Margery Prescott (70), Ann Haylor (27) Ellen Haylor (23). Parents James Marsh (33), Mary E Marsh (29), Elizabeth Marsh (5), Bertie Marsh (2). 1911 - Sees 12 years old schoolboy Bertie living at 133, Grafton Street, St Helens with parents James (43), Mary Elizabeth (39) and four siblings: Elizabeth (15), James (13), Margery (8), John (6). AVL 1918: 8 Diloway Street, St Helens.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=27]Remembered On St Lukes Church WW1 Memorial, Knowsley Road.[/url] [url=http://www.sthelensrollsofhonour.co.uk/lmem.php?lmem=1][pic]/bertie_marsh.jpg[/pic][/url][caption]The panel on the Soissons Memorial bearing the inscription for Private Bertie Marsh (Photograph courtesy of Ste M. and FAG)[/caption] Age from service papers.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=27]Remembered On St Lukes Church WW1 Memorial, Knowsley Road.[/url] [url=http://www.sthelensrollsofhonour.co.uk/lmem.php?lmem=1][pic]/bertie_marsh.jpg[/pic][/url][caption]The panel on the Soissons Memorial bearing the inscription for Private Bertie Marsh (Photograph courtesy of Ste M. and FAG)[/caption] Age from service papers.
Looking at the entry that is crossed out it suggests Bertie had a wife but there is no marriage in our database for him.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/91701BertieMarsh.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/91701_Marsh.jpg[/pic][caption]Clipping from the St Helens Reporter[/caption]
