Bertram Dimock was born in Stretham in 1890 and christened on 28 May in the village church of St James the same year. Youngest of the four children of Joseph & Rebecca (nee Sennitt), he grew up in the village and in the 1911 census he was listed as a grocer's assistant.
By 1917 Bertram was living in Dalston, possibly tempted to the great metropolis by his brother Herbert who married in West Ham in 1907. He married Elizabeth Sexton on 14 April that year, at St Philip, Dalston.
Bertram enlisted in the City of London Fusiliers in December 1917, signing up in Stratford, and was sent to France on 29 December that year. He died on 28 March 1918 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
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