BERTIE GEORGE VINE

image from 1917 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper
Born: 1897, Ipswich.
Died: 4th March 1917; age 20; KiA.
Employed: on a lathe in the engineering shop at the Orwell Works.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Acting Bombardier; Service Number: 895120
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, 55th Division Ammunition Col. (T.F.)
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference.
VI.A.4.
Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery,
Leper,
West Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Next of Kin: Mother – Mrs Price (formerly Mrs Vine), of the Lord Nelson.
CENSUS
1901 31, Cumberland Street, Ipswich.
Bertie was 4 years old and living with his mother, brother & step father.
Charles Herbert Price, 28, a Working Jeweller, born Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Eliza Elizabeth H. Price (nee Southgate), born Ipswich.
Harry Charles Vine, 9, born Ipswich.
1911 41, Oxford Street, Ipswich.
Bertie was 14 years old, a Coal Merchants Clerk. He was living with his mother, brother, step father, & step siblings.
Charles, 37, a Working Jeweller.
Eliza, 39.
Harry, 19, an Engine Fitter Apprentice.
Charles Ernest Price, 9, born Ipswich.
Winifred Priscilla Price, 3, born 5, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich.
1 Boarder.
Bertie’s father was Harry James Vine, born 1870, Ipswich – died 1898, Ipswich.
Bertie is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Clement’s Church WW1 War Memorial
, Christ Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich. , Alan Road Methodist Church and the Orwell Works Memorial Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ipswich.
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