Ibbott/Ibbot, B C
BERTRAM CHARLES IBBOTT
Remembered with honour Beehive Cemetery: Row A, Grave 8.
He enlisted 10 April 1915 at Bushey, Herts: a clerk aged 19, 5’4½” tall. He was formerly Private S/4/085715 Royal Army Service Corps, and Private 43480 Bedfordshire Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 25 September 1915, was wounded by a shell and died in hospital.
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Bertram in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 28 July 1917.
Son of Arthur Pearson and Victoria (nee MILLER) IBBOTT of Watford Heath.
His parents married 1888 in the Islington, London, district. Victoria died 1931 in Watford aged 63, and was buried 7 November in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Arthur died 21 November 1955 in Watford aged 89, and was buried 26 November, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Bertram was born 1896 in Dalston, Middx, and attended Watford Grammar School from January 1907 to July 1912.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Bushey, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 15, he still lived in Bushey, with his parents and four siblings.
Service number
85380Rank
PrivateUnit
4th attached 92nd BrigadeRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
16/07/1917Age at death
21Place of death
Memorial(s)
Notes
His brother Arthur died 3 September 1916 and also features on this Roll of Honour- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)