SILK Bernard Ward

  • First Name(s):
    Bernard 
    Ward 
  • Surname:
    SILK
  • Service Number:
    151415
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    14th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    23rd July 1916
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 9A 9B and 10B.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Redditch, Worcestershire, enlisted Birmingham
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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SILK Bernard Ward Is Named On These Memorials

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church
Redditch War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church with the information: Private

Further Information About SILK Bernard Ward

Bernard Ward Silk was born in 1894 in the Alcester District and baptised on 22nd July 1894 in Acocks Green, Worcestershire.  His parents were William Henry Silk and Eliza Bottley Silk.  On the 1911 census Bernard Silk aged 16, Clerk, lived with his parents William Henry and Eliza Botteley Silk at 98 Oakly Road, Redditch.

Birmingham Daily Post, Saturday 5th August 1916:
Mr and Mrs W. H. Silk, of Worcester Road, Redditch, have received information that their son Bernard, has been killed in action.  Prior to enlisting in the army the deceased had rendered service in the Y.M.C.A. huts and before the war he had been actively interested in the Boy Scout movement.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger, Saturday 30th September 1916:
Casualties
(1415) B. W. Silk – Royal Warwicks from Redditch

Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger digitised by and courtesy of Martin Stephens.

Bernard Silk has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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