34004 Rifleman Bertram Thomas Hurlock was the son of Thomas and Mary Hurlock of 4 Smith Street, Coventry. Thomas Hurlock and Mary Ann Banks had married at All Saints Parish Church, Newington, on 17th August 1884. Bertram was born in Camberwell, Surrey, on 31 August 1885, and attended St. John and All Saints Infants School in Lambeth. As of 28th October 1902, he began working as an postman in the Norwood district of London (as announced in The London Gazette, page 6913, edition date 31st October 1902). At the time of the 1911 census, he was still working as a postman and was living in Argylle Road, Mile End. Bertram enlisted at Stepney in London and served with the 16th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He died on 26 December 1916 at No. 3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France, the result of trench hands and feet. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, grave reference O. III. B. 4.
The link to Gentleshaw is far from clear. However, Bertram’s French death certificate - shown here courtesy of Ancestry - states that he was previously domiciled in Horsley Lane, Upper Longdon, having been born in Clerkenwell to Thomas and May Hurlock.