Second Lieutenant Bertram Samuel Carty

Army Number : n/a (formerly Private 2134 Warwickshire Yeomanry)

Battalion : 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 22nd October 1895 at Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Son of William James and Lucy Carty, of 8 Guys Cliff Terrace, Warwick. He was a draughtsman for the Great Western Railway at Warwick Station. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 26th February 1915 and went to France 10th February 1916. He was killed in action, 21st August 1916, aged 20, whilst serving in the line at Bernafay Wood, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, France. Row O. Grave 57.

Second Lieutenant Bertram Samuel Carty is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Warwick War Memorial, Warwick, Warwickshire.

His brother Second Lieutenant William James Carty, 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.