GRICE, Bertram Stanley
| Service Numbers: | 3386, 3386A |
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| Enlisted: | 28 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ash Island, New South Wales, Australia, 30 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Hexham, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Hexham Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer (Hexham J & A Brown Workshops) |
| Died: | Wounds, 12th Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Bellicourt, FranceFrance, 2 October 1918, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Tincourt New British Cemetery VI G 28 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brethren of the Purple Star L.O.L. No 13, Maitland Hexham Workshop Employees HR |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3386, 53rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3386, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3386, 53rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 2 Oct 1918: | Involvement Private, 3386A, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3386A awm_unit: 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-10-02 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of William and Ervina GRACE of Ash Island, New South Wales
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 2nd October 1918, Private Bertram Stanley Grice, 53rd Battalion (Lewis Machine Gun Section, Reg No- 3386A), labourer (Hexham J & A Brown Workshops), from Ash Island, New South Wales, Died of Wounds (2 a.m.) at the 12th Australian Casualty Clearing Station (badly wounded by stick bomb) at Bellicourt, France, age 29 years 11 months.
Born at Ash Island, New South Wales on the 30th November 1888 as Bartent Stanley to William Snr (died 20.9.1927, Maitland Road, Tarro, N.S.W., age 82), and Ervina Grice nee Green (died 15.5.1921, Maitland Road, Hexham, N.S.W., age 70, mother of 10?), from Maitland Road, Hexham, New South Wales (1918), Bert enlisted on the 28th December 1916, (Reg No-3386) at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A68 Anchises on the 24th January 1917.
Disembarked Devonport, England 27.3.1917.
Re-allotted Reg No. 3386A 11.8.1917, France.
Granted leave to England from 8.3.1918 to 28.4.1918.
Wounded in action - 1.10.1918 (SW abdomen, right thigh).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134505871 - Roll of Honour, 1927.
Mr. Grice is resting at Tincourt New British Cemetery, France. Plot VI Row G Grave 28.
Place of Association - Hexham, New South Wales, Australia.
Bert’s name has been inscribed on the Hexham J & A Brown Workshops Roll of Honor, Woodberry-Tarro War Memorial, Hexham Public School Roll of Honor, Hexham Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Book of Gold, Woodberry-Tarro Public School Roll of Honour, Tarro Purple Star No.13 L.O.L. Memorial Tablet and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Ash Island did not produce a Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Grice gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 4 NW. 36.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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