A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- St Helens Cemetery : George Smith Bratby -

Location

In St Helens Cemetery, St Helens, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Private headstone - CWGC style
Grave location not known
Headstone

St Helens Cemetery : G S Bratby
 
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Inscription


IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GEORGE SMITH BRATBY
LATE 3RD GLOUCESTER REGIMENT
1914 - 1918
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF
ELSIE LETITIA BRATBY
DIED DEC 4TH 1935 AGED 58
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Further Information

Father : William Bratby
Mother (Maiden name shown) : Martha Bradley Malpass
Birth Place : Manchester
Birth Date : 1877
Spouse : Elsie Letitia Price
Marriage Place : Lewisham
Marriage Date : 1917
Death Place : Ryde, Isle of Wight
Death Date : 4 Dec 1935

George Bratby was invalided out of the Army on 23 Feb 1918, suffering from shell shock and neurasthenia, conditions which remained with him until his death, which resulted from a fall down stairs, exacerbated by alcoholism, from which he suffocated.



 
 

 
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