Private Fred Bartles

Army Number: 13534

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

Born in Nottingham. Son of John William and Sarah Ann Bartles, of 3, Lindum Grove, Meadow Lane, Nottingham. He was a grocer’s assistant prior to enlisting at Nottingham on 26th August 1914 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to Gallipoli on 23rd August 1915 and was taken sick with dysentery and hospitalised at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 3rd December 1915. He was invalided to England and admitted to No. 1 Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, 4th January 1916. On recovery, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to France on 28th June 1916 being attached to the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He was killed in action, on 14th July 1916, aged 20, during the battle for Bazentin Ridge, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Fred Bartles is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Loggerheads Public House War Memorial (St. Mary’s Church), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.