Private Bertie Mee

Private Bertie Mee

Army Number: 11909

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Daybrook, Nottinghamshire. Son of Thomas and Ann Mee, of Bells Terrace, Portland Street, Daybrook. Prior to enlistment at Nottingham, he was a brewery hand at Home Brewery, Mansfield Road, Daybrook, Nottingham. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private Bertie Mee is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Arnot Hill Park War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Daybrook, Nottinghamshire.
Daybrook, Baptist Church, Daybrook, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalene Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.