WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 67270 22869 |
Pte Harold Bertram Colam | Durham Light Infantry Labour Corps, 472 Agricultural Company Bulcote |
Born 1883 |
| Medal card | Gives his two numbers and units. Awarded Victory and British Medals |
Name noted only as Bertram, and on army records | |
| AVL Roll of Honour |
AVL address: Fernleigh House, Nottingham Rd Not listed on RoH. |
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| Service Pension Records | Examined 24/2/16 Ailment: Nephrectomy Scar. Grade C1. Enlisted
30/1/17 Not due a pension. Grade on discharge IV, date of discharge 9/4/19. [Two dates contradictory] He had a kidney removed in 1912 and suffered Lumbago and Myalgia during July. He had a dull pain in his back and down the back of his leg. “No albumen”. He spent 44 days in 1917 in 3rd Scottish General Hospital [Glasgow] with Myalgia, having “arrived from France”. He was given massage, general tonics and exercise! On 31st July 1917 he was “categorised B3 by special medical board2” by OC 472 Agricultural Coy, Lab Corps. Medical history form dated 24 February 1916 has his occupation as Brewery Clerk and his age as 30 (=b. 1886), but service numbers are correct. He was 5’ 9¼”, weighed 160 lbs and his chest was 38” (expansion 3½”). The form is stamped no longer physically fit for war service and dated 9th April 1919. |
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Family history etc
| Harold Bertram Colam | |||
| 1883 | Born in Louth | ||
| 1881 census family |
At 105 Eastgate Louth: Father: Marcham b. 1839 Louth Mother: Sarah Ann b. 1841 Tuxford Siblings: Emily R, b. 1867 Louth Fanny, b. Louth 1867 Gertrude, b. Louth 1869 Dora A. b. 1879 Louth And: Charlotte Moore b. 1867 Lincolnshire |
Plumber General servant |
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| 1883 baptismal register | Baptised 3 Oct 1883 St James’ Louth: Father: Marcham Colam b. 1839 d. 1925 Louth Mother: Sarah Ann Colam b. 1841 d. 1922 Louth |
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| 1891 | Living at 116 Eastgate Louth with: Father: Marcham Mother: Sarah Ann Siblings: Fanny Dora A. b. 1879 Louth |
Plumber
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Ancesttry.co.uk transcription has Polson for Colam. |
| 1893 | Fanny Colam married Herbert Simons in Jun qtr in Louth | ||
| 1901 census | Living on Cheapside, Nottingham with: John D Batterham, b. 1866 Cockley Clay, Norfolk And Fifteen other sevants |
Servant [drapery assistant] Draper Servant [drapery assistant] |
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| 1911 census | Boarding at The Grosvenor, Chine Crescent, West Cliff with: Frederick William Goodwin, head , b. 1879 Kennington, London Alice Mary Goodwin, wife b. 1877 Daughter Betty Alice Goodwin b. 1908 Brixton, London And Four people classed as servants 29 people classed as boarders including: Herbert Simons b. 1871 Louth Fanny Simons (wife) b. 1871 Louth |
Draper’s Assistant Boarding House Keeper |
Now the New Westcliffe Hotel. We suspect Bertram, his sister, fanny, and her husband, Herbert, were on holiday on the night of the census. |
| AVL 1918 | Fernleigh Long Acre was the home of his sister and her husband Herbert Simons. | In the 1901 census the Simons were in Church Street, Bingham and he was a music teacher. | Fernleigh is now Granby House |
| Electoral Rolls | 1919, 1921 Herbert and Fanny Simons at Fernleigh, Long Acre, Bingham | Herbert Simons in the Trade directories (all Long Acre): 1904 insurance agent 1936 Master of Fox Hounds. Organist All Saints. Parliamentary agent to Earl of Tichfield MP 1941 Organist All Saints. Parliamentary agent to Earl of Tichfield MP |
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| 1926 | Poss marriage to Sarah J Oliver at Louth June qtr | ||
| 1957 | Poss death Gloucester Rural aged 73 | ||