Edward Albert (Bertie) Fudge

Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

Rank and number: Private 30538

Parents: Frederick Charles and Elizabeth May Fudge

Marital status: Married

Home address: 32, Mogg Street, Ming Road, Bristol.

Date of birth: 19/02/1890

Place of birth: St. Philips, Bristol

Date of death: 15/09/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated at Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France and Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial

Age: 28

Further information:

Bertie was born in St. Phillips in Bristol, the youngest child of seven with two sisters, two brothers and two step-brothers from his mother's first marriage. His father was a bootmaker and his mother was a charwoman. He was 10 years old when his father died. Bertie married Lily Rivers in 1912 and Ivy May was born in 1915. She was just 3 years old when her father died.

Bertie enlisted in 1914 and mobilised to France in the August. With the 1st Battalion, he fought in various actions on the Western Front including the Battle and Retreat from Mons, the battles of Ypres, Loos and Somme and the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Bertie died of wounds during the Battles of the Hindenburg Line (12 September – 12 October 1918) a series of very large-scale offensive operations aimed to break the Hindenburg Line system. His body was never identified and the memorial where he is remembered, bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave.

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/
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battles-of-the-hindenburg-line/