GROVES, Bertram Charles

Lyness Naval Cemetery, Orkney UKCredit: Unnown

Canteen Server
HMS Malaya
Merchant Navy

Bertram was born 1886 in Newport to Joseph Henry & Ellen Sophronia GROVES.

During the Battle of Jutland on the 31st of May 1916, the Malaya, a Dreadnough Class Battleship, was damaged. Bertram was wounded & succumbed to his wounds the same day. His body was landed ashore for burial.

Bertram, aged 30, was laid to rest in the Lyness Naval Cemetery, Orkney in Scotland beneath a granite Commission Headstone, alongside 445 comrades of the First World War, 109 of which are unidentified. Bertram is also remembered on the County & Ryde Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.