Farley Alfred Bertram Pte 5255749
Personnel Entry
Name Farley Alfred Bertram
Army number 5255749
Rank Private.
Decorations None yet known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born Worcestershire 27/5/1915.
Age
Unit Joined the Worcestershire Regiment - no enlistment details as yet. Transferred to the Rifle Brigade 21/6/1940. Not traced in Rifle Brigade Enlistment Books. Transferred to The Buffs. Transferred to the East Surrey Regiment 2/2/1943. Transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry 21/6/1943. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 18/4/1944, and posted to the 10th Battalion DLI. Served Normandy. Taken Prisoner of War. DIED in U.S. Evacuation Hospital 15/4/1945, Casualty Reference 104.91, GW222
Company/Battery Not yet ascertained.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet confirmed.
Task or role Not yet known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 18/4/1944.
Promotions None known as yet.
Wounded Not as far as is known. His CWGC documentation describes Bert as having DIED, rather than DIED of WOUNDS, so it is assumed he suffered from some illness. It is not known whether he was wounded at the time of his capture.
Prisoner of War Yes - held in Stalag 8c - Konin Zaganski - Poland. PoW Number 70039
Died/Killed in action Died 15-Apr-45 after being recovered from enemy custody. Initially interred in the Magraten American Cemetery, Holland, Map Reference Sh9, 1/100,000 655481. Re-buried 28/4/1947 in Grave VII. G. 5. Venray War Cemetery, Limburg, Netherlands. Head stone inscription reads:- IN MEMORY OF BERT. ALWAYS ENSHRINED, IN THE HEARTS OF, ELIZABETH AND PAULINE. Probate was granted to Elizabeth Helen Farley from the Birmingham Probate Office.
Home address Resident of Worcestershire. Son of Alfred Bertram and Elizabeth Farley, husband of Elizabeth Helen Farley, Kidderminster. In the 1939 General Register he is shown as living at 5, Oxford Row, Kidderminster, Worcestershire and working as a Railway Carter - Heavy.
Source table 10DLI