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Point du Jour Military Cemetery

Point du Jour Military Cemetery, Athies

The final resting place of many RGLI soldiers who lost their lives on 1st December 1917.

Bertie (Alfred Bertie) De La Mare

Bertie De La Mare was originally buried at Seranvillers Communal Cemetery by the German Army and moved to Point du Jour by the Imperial War Graves Commission in the early 1920s

Remembered on:

Island (Bailiwick) Memorial, St Peter Port, Guernsey
St Peter's Parish Memorial, Guernsey
Torteval Parish Memorial, Guernsey
Torteval School Roll of Honour, Guernsey

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

 


Bertie De La Mare

Private Bertie (Alfred Bertie) de la Mare
1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
01/12/1917


Son of Nicholas and Eliza de la Mare, of Rocquaine Place, St. Peter-in-the-Wood, Guernsey. Born and enlisted at Guernsey.

Killed in action, aged 21 years.

Brother of Walter

 

 

Cemetery video

With thanks to the Guernsey Press, The Priaux Library and Brian de Jersey