Herbert Edward (Bert) Demmery

Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church

Regiment: Machine Gun Corps

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 103233

Parents: Samuel and Mary Fanny Demmery

Marital status: Married

Home address: Webb's Heath, Warmley, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Bootmaker

Date of birth: 1892

Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol

Date of death: 01/05/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Merville Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France and commemorated on Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial

Age: 25

Further information:

Bert was born in Kingswood the son of a bootmaker and the second youngest of four children with two brothers and a sister. Bert's father died when he was seven years old and the family moved back to live with his mother's parents in Oldland. Bert married Lillian Grace Noble a corset maker in October 1914 and together they had a boy Wilfred and a girl Gwendoline.

Bert enlisted in 1914 and fought in various actions on the Western Front as part of the 95th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) who were a front-line fighting force with a reputation for bravery. The Corps consequently had a very high casualty rate. Bert was killed in action during the German Spring Offensive (21 Mar 1918 – 18 Jul 1918) an operation that resulted in over 860,000 allied casualties and nearly 700,000 German casualties. After the armistice, Bert's body was exhumed from the battlefield and reburied in Merville cemetery extension along with many other servicemen who had also been buried in the field where they had fallen.

Note – recorded as B Demmery on the Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/