Bertram Jolley lived in Fort Street, Northampton with his wife Olive and daughter Mabel who was born April 1916.
Bertram had worked as a projector operator in a local cinema before he went to the Western Front serving as a motor transport driver with the Army Service Corps.
In July 1917, a German shell exploded in amongst several lorries, killing Bertram and wounding 5 others. He was described as "the life and soul of his section." His comrades buried his body, but it was lost in the later fighting.
He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. Bertram was aged 23 years old when he was killed.
5 months later, his widow Olive died, leaving Mabel an orphan at just 18 months. Mabel lived until 1996 but would not remember her parents.
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