GEORGE BERTIE SCARLETT
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury – 1915
Born: 1885, Ipswich.
Died on or since death presumed: 15th September 1914; age 29; reported missing after the fighting at Vailly.
Evening Star – Thursday, 29th October – 1914 – No. 8817, Private George Scarlett, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, has been reported missing since the Battle of Vailly. He is the son of Mr. James Scarlett, St. John Ambulance Station, Samuel Road, Ipswich, who has also another son of the 2nd Essex Regiment home suffering from a bullet wound through the foot in the Battle of Aisne, and has also two other sons serving in the 4th Suffolk Regiment, who have volunteered for active service.
E.A.D.T. – Thursday, 25th March 1915 – Mr. and Mrs. James Scarlett, of the Ambulance Station, Samuel Road, Ipswich, have received intimation that their son, Lance Sergeant Albert Edward Scarlett, G Company, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, has been severely wounded in five places at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. It was stated that he received gunshot wounds in the legs and a fractured thigh. Albert is now in hospital in Worcestershire, and is going on as well as can be expected. His elder brother, James William Scarlett, who was fighting with him, got through the battle safely, but his first thought was of his brother, whom he found had been carried off the field, having received shrapnel and gunshot wounds on both legs and a thigh fractured. This is the second son Mr. James Scarlett has had wounded, and the Drummer has been invalided home. No news has yet been received concerning another son, George Bertie Scarlett, who was reported missing on the 14th September.
Residence: The Ambulance Station, Samuel Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: with Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Orwell Works, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 27th August 1914.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 8817.
Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star + Clasp.
Memorial Reference:
La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial,
Seine et Marne,
France.
CENSUS
1891 Southampton Cottages, Tovello Road, Ipswich.
George was 6 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
James Scarlett, a Sorter – Ready Made Clothing Warehouse, born Tuddenham St. Martin, Suffolk.
Ann Scarlett (nee Flude), 32, born Tuddenham St. Martin.
James William Scarlett, 10, born Ipswich.
Alice Maud Scarlett, 8, born Ipswich.
Albert Edward Scarlett, 4, born Ipswich.
Florence Elizabeth Scarlett, 1, born Ipswich.
1901 84, Upland Road, Ipswich.
George was 16 years old, an Errand Boy. He was living with his parents & siblings.
James, 43, a Clothing Warehouseman.
Ann, 43.
James, 20, a Bricklayer’s Labourer.
Albert, 14, a Gardener’s Assistant.
Florence, 11.
Herbert Walter Scarlett, 8, born Ipswich.
Elsie May Scarlett, 3, born Ipswich.
Charles Robert Scarlett, 9 months, born Ipswich.
1911 South Africa.
George was 26 years old, a Soldier ranked Private in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
On the 13th April 1914, at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, 28 year old George, a fitter, of the Ambulance Station, Samuel Road, Ipswich, married 27 year old Beatrice Mary Elizabeth Eley, born June 1886, Rushmere St. Andrew, Suffolk, baptised on the 11th July 1886 (with her brother, Henry William Eley, born 4th April 1882), at St. Andrew’s Church, Rushmere St. Andrew – daughter of Robert Eley, a labourer, and Elizabeth Eley (nee Taylor), and stepdaughter of George Wolno, a general labourer for the Ipswich Corporation, at Wolsey Street, Ipswich, of 400, Spring Road, Ipswich.
Beatrice and George had one son:
George Bertie James Scarlett, born in October 1914 and privately baptised by the curate of St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, on the 30th October 1914 – family home of Bertie’s brother at Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich. George Bertie James died on the 31st October 1914 and was buried at Section C, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Soldiers’ Effects to Beatrice M. Scarlett – widow.
George is also remembered on the Orwell Works Memorial Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, and at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, and Bethesda Baptist Church, St. Margaret’s Plain, Ipswich.
Image from the 1915 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper.
The above are the portraits of Mr. James Scarlett, who is in charge of the St. John Ambulance Station in Samuel Road. Ipswich. Prior to taking up his present appointment Mr. Scarlett was employed at the firm of Messrs. Fraser and Co., wholesale clothiers, Orchard Street. He was for 29 years a member of the old Suffolk Volunteers, attaining the rank of sergeant, and upon the institution of the Territorial system served two years under the new conditions. He holds the Long Service and Coronation Medals. Seated on the left is Sergeant J.W. Scarlett, of the 4th Suffolks, who went out to France with the Battalion, and was wounded near Ypres, and is now in Ipswich acting as drill instructor. Inset is the second son, Private Geo. Scarlett, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who was killed in action in France in September 1914. Standing on the right of the photograph is Sergeant A.E. Scarlett, also of the 4th Suffolks, who was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, and is now acting as recruiting sergeant. Private Herbert, of the Army Flying Corps, is now stationed at Farnborough. Before joining the Flying Corps, he was a drummer in the 2nd Essex, and whilst serving with that regiment was wounded at the Aisne.
Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st Battalion
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