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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no:
  • Rank: Able Seaman
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: S.S. Solent
  • Unit/Ship: Merchantile Marine
  • Place of Death: Alness, Ross & Cromerty
  • Age at Death: 33
  • Date of Death: 17/10/1916
  • Burial Country: Scotland
  • Cemetery: Cadder Cemetery, Bishopbriggs
  • Grave/Mem Ref no:

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 27 Ritchie Street, Belfast.
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Caroline Bertie (nee Smith)

  • Father:

    William P. Bertie

  • Siblings:

    Norman, Thomas, Caroline, Marion, Robert & Kenneth

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about William P. Bertie

William was the brother of Sapper Norman M. Bertie, 400034, 206th Field Company, Royal Engineers who died from wounds, 08.09.1917.

Although William Bertie’s address is given as 27 Ritchie Street, Belfast he was born in Dundee. Throughout 1915 he served in the Belfast registered coastal vessel Glendun as an Able Seaman. The report in Deaths at Sea noted that he died from exposure at Alness in Ross and Cromarty.

Grave marker inscription. Erected by CARLOINE SMITH in memory of her husband WILLIAM P. BERTIE who died __ June 1904 aged __ years; The above CAROLINE SMITH died 14th January 1935 aged __ years; also their son THOMAS BERTIE died 13th May 1958 aged 6_ years; [Next Side] ROBERT SMITH and MARION ELIZABETH infant children of WILLIAM P. BERTIE; KENNETH BERTIE died 9th March 1916 aged 17 years; their sons, LEAING SEAMNA WILLIAM P. BERTIE died at Alness, Rosshire 25th November 1916 aged 34 years; Sapper NORMAN M. BERTIE died of wounds in Belgium __ September 1917 aged 22 years; CAROLINE BERTIE beloved wife of GEORGE BULLOCH died 14th April 1945; the above GEORGE BULLOCH died 11th December 1948 aged__ years.

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