SNELLGROVE, Bertram Alfred

Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme France

Credit: CWGC

Private

26th Battalion

Australian Infantry

Bertram was born 1889 in Newport to Henry & Matilda (nee GREEN) SNELLGROVE who were living at 20 Cross Lane in Newport around the time of Bertram’s death. In 1911 the family had lived at 28 Victoria Road in Newport.

Bertram emigrated to Australia but joined up after the outbreak of war. Aged 28, he was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 29th of July 1916 during the Battle of The Somme. Bertram’s body was never found or identified & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial to The Missing on The Somme, France together with 10,794 of his missing First World War comrades.

Bertram is also remembered on the Australian National, IW County & Newport 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.