Bertram Allsop 1893-1916

Picture from Du Ruvigney's Roll of Honour on Ancestry

Born: 6 October 1893 in Barnsley

Son of: John Henry Allsop born 1863,1901 railwayman 23 Pogmoor Road Barnsley, who was married at St Mary's Barnsley on 20 April 1890 to Ellen Phillips, born 1862

Position in family: second of three sons
1. John Allsop born 1892
2. Bertram Allsop born 1893 WW1 killed
3. Ernest Henry Allsop born 1896 WW1 killed
Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 23 Pogmoor Road aged 7
1911: 4 Westbourne Terrace Dodworth Road aged 17 warehouseman
1915: 44 Keir Street Barnsley aged 21 years 356 days storekeeper

Bertram was unmarried
 
Military Service:
Enlisted:27 September 1915 at the age of 21 in Barnsley
Regiment and Battalion:  14th Yorks & Lancs
Service number and rank:  14/1461 Lance Corporal(promoted from private June 1916)
Awards: Victory and British War Medals

Personal information:   5' 5" tall, 35" chest, normal vision

Death: reported wounded and missing, 
then assumed killed in action 1 July 1916 aged 23
CWGC Remembered: Thiepval Memorial

Remembered:
Barnsley, St George's memorial plaque and Barnsley, St Mary's Combined Memorial

Notes:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission 
Lives of the First World War

Further information is available about this man on request.