5510 Company Sergeant Major Bertram Charles Arter of the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, was killed in action on 11th August 1917. Soldiers Died in The Great War (SDGW) notes his rank as "Colour Sergeant, Acting CSM" whilst the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) records his rank as CSM. His medal index card, showing entitlement to the British War and Victory medals only, notes his rank as Acting Warrant Officer Class 2.
CWGC also notes that Bertram was a veteran of the South African campaign (the Boer War) and the husband of Margaret Mary Arter of The Bungalow, Rocky Knapps, Dorchester Road, Weymouth. SDGW notes that he was born in Devizes, and enlisted at Devizes but gave his residential address as Wandsworth, London. That enlistment date, judging by his number, would have been early 1900.
CSM Arter was 35 years old when he was killed and is commemorated on panel 53 of the Menin Gate at Ypres.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War
Photograph courtesy of Australians on the Western Front 1914-1918, shows the unveiling of the Menin Gate on 24th July 1927
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