Bertram Henry Tarbox

A Private with 1st Bn., Bertram died on 21st of April 1915 at the age of 33. 

Bertram was born at Norwich in 1882, a son of James Clifford and Elizabeth H. Tarbox. In 1891 they lived at 1 Fye Bridge, Norwich. By 1901 they had moved to Lowestoft and lived at 8 York Road, and Bertram worked as a stable assistant/groom. 

On 17 January 1907 Bertram married Elizabeth Cook at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft. Bertram was a fisherman living at 61 Wollaston Road, and Elizabeth lived at 51 Reeve Street. By 1911 their home was at 63 Edinburgh Road, Lowestoft.

In 1910 Bertram worked on the trawler Hilda and was injured and had to be treated at the John Cory Sailors' rest at Milford Haven. 

Bertram volunteered and joined the Army at Lowestoft. He enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment. He arrived in France on 16 January 1915 to join the 1st Battalion. 

The 1st Battalion War Diary for April 1915 is incomplete and no details of the Battalion's activities on 21 April however we do know that he was killed in action on 21 April and received a battlefield burial at map reference 28.J.4.b.7.6. which is in the Zonnebeke area. In 1923 he was reburied at Bedford House Cemetery.