Private 19787 Bernard BACHE

41st Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) formerly 3581 King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Died of wounds in the Battle of Fleurs-Courcelette (Somme), France and Flanders, 18th September 1916, age 22

Buried Heilly Station Cemetery, Somme, France. Grave Ref: IV D 16

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of Alfred Bache, 24 Cartland Road, Sparkbrook

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Born 1893 in King’s Norton

1901 and 1911 census, living with his aunt, Ellen Taylor, 134 Coton Road, Nuneaton

1911 Census, employed as coal miner/hewer

Enlisted Nuneaton, arriving in France, 19th May 1915