William Bartley (OC944) was a member of Price’s House and left Campbell in 1910.  He had emigrated to Canada and was working in the Imperial Bank of Canada before he joined the army. He enlisted in the 52 Battalion Canadian Infantry on 26 August 1915 and attained the rank of Sergeant before he died of wounds.

His father The Reverend John R. Bartley LL. B. (Trinity College, Dublin) of the Presbyterian Church, Tralee, County Kerry was on his way to visit his seriously wounded son in London when he was lost on the R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by a German Submarine His body was recovered and buried on 15 October 1918 in the New Cemetery, Tralee, County Kerry.

Sergeant William Bartley, 150790, 52nd Battalion (Manitoba Regiment) Canadian Expeditionary Force, died of his wounds in a military hospital in Tooting, south London, on 16 October 1918.  He is buried in the same grave as his father.

Fellow OC Edwin Boyers was in Dublin at the time of the sinking and treated a number of casualties from this incident. He died of influenza on the 25 October 1918.

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