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Private Bertie Lusby served in the East Yorkshire Regiment from 1916-19, he and his brother, Alfred, joined the 13th Battalion (4th Hull Pals) together sometime in early 1916 as they were allocated consecutive army numbers 25847 and 25848. They were in action on 13 Nov 1916 at Serre, one of the last battles on the Somme. The Beverley Guardian of 13 Jan 1917 noted that Bertie was wounded in the head and the right arm and that Alfred had been taken prisoner; he was to spend the rest of the war in captivity in Germany. Bertie recovered he was later switched to the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshires.He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Bertie was born in Thearne, near Woodmansey, the 21 May 1897 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 20 Jun 1897. His father John Lusby was a farm foreman in the village and was originally from Lincolnshire; his mother, Flora was local. Bertie was one of six children. The family moved to Beverley and was recorded in the 1911 as living at 18 Keldgate.
On his return from the war, Bertie worked as a labourer and on 21 Aug 1923 married Elsie May Clark, born in Hull in 1898, at Beverley Minster. They had three children: Kenneth, born 1925, and twins Betty and Nancy born 1927. By 1939 they had moved to Hull and the 1939 Register shows they were living at 8 De La Pole Ave and that Bertie was a “general labourer/builder”. He died in Hull in 1968, Elsie died Beverley in 1984.
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