Bertram George Bardwell

A Gunner with 118 Field Regt., Bertram died on 10th of December 1942 at the age of 21. 

Bertram was born at Great Yarmouth in 1921, a son of Bertram and Ruth Bardwell. His family lived at 20 Regent Road, Great Yarmouth. In 1939 they lived at 104 Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, and later his parents lived at Lowestoft Suffolk.

Bertram enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1939. He served with 118th Field Regiment. The Regiment was based at Woolwich until 1941 when it was sent to India as part of the 18th (East Anglian) Division. In January 1942 the 18th Division was sent to reinforce the garrison at Singapore, arriving there on January 29. With the fall of Singapore, on 15 February 1942, the majority of the Regiment, including Bertram, became prisoners of war. George was one of the prisoners forced to work on the construction of the Burma Railway. He was at Kinsayoke (Kinsaiyok) Camp when he died from colitis catarrh. He was buried at Kinsayoke and, in March 1946, exhumed and then reburied at Kanchanaburi.  

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