Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Battalion
Birth:
November 18, 1892
St. Georges
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
August 15, 1917
Hill 70, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John Randolph Bertrand of St. Georges, Grenada, British West Indies.
Additional citations
London Gazette No. 30188 dated 18 July 1917. 1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
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Photo of Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
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Photo of Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Circumstances of death registers
Photo courtesy of Kathy Grant, Black Canadian Veterans Stories of War.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Lancelot Joseph Bertrand
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 200 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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