Year of birth: 1895

Place of birth: Downton, Wiltshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Profession: Day laborer

Country: Wales, United Kingdom

Force: British Expeditionary Force

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Service number: /

Enlistment place: Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Units:  —  South Wales Borderers, 6th Bn. (Pioneers)  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 10/09/1917

Place of death: Halifax Camp, Belgium

Cause of death: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Age: 22

1914-15 Star Medal

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

Bertram Frederick Kerley was born in 1895. He was the son of Frederick John and Mary Annie Kerley of Downtown, Wiltshire. According to the 1911 Census, Bertram worked as a farm labourer.

Bertram joined the army and embarked for France in July 1915. In April 1917 he obtained a commission as a Second Lieutenant with the 6th Battalion South Wales Borderers, which was a pioneer Battalion of the 25th Division. In September 1917 the Battalion was stationed in Pioneer Camp north of Dikkebus, maintaining roads and positions, in dire circumstances. Working parties were regularly shelled.

On the 10th of September 1917 the Battalion moved to Halifax Camp, as it would entrain to France on the following day. Halifax Camp was shelled on 10 September 1917.

Second Lieutenant Kerley, 22, was killed in action. Bertram was buried in the nearby Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery.

Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/ Further reference

CWGC https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/92887/kerley,-bertram-fredrick/ Sources used

The Long, Long Trail https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/ Sources used

War Diary South Wales Borderers, 6th Bn. (Pioneers) http://www.nmarchive.com/ Further reference