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Bertram Inkpen

Private

Service No. 12551

Age 18

Died on 18 August 1916

Gordon Highlanders

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Mr. J.R.B. and Mrs. M. Inkpen, of 18, Shillingstone, Blandford, Dorset. His brothers Ernest John Inkpen and Walter Inkpen also fell.

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Henry Harrison

Bertram, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Jaki Beaton

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Poppy Shop Supporter

We will remember them.

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Bertram, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st Lincolns and the...

Henry Harrison

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I do not know you Private Inkpen but I know your name from a certificate that I received with a Somme Poppy pin and the first thing that I n...

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