Corporal Herbert George Bartlett was born in Jersey on May 24th 1893 and educated at the Jersey Modern School. During the First World War he served with the Royal Engineers and he is listed in the Jersey Roll of Service, however, the address on the medal envelope is in Sark.
His service papers sho he enlisted on 7th May 1915 in Jersey, was promoted to Lance Corporal on 25th September 1915 and again to Motorcycle Corporal on 10th September 1916. After enlistment in the Royal Engineers, he was posted to Dunstable Signal Depot on 11th May 1915. On August 25th 1917 he embarked from Southampton to Alexandria, where he duly arrived on September 12th 1917. On November 11th 1917 he received a reprimand for failing to send a packet marked 'Priority Despatch' in the correct manner. On 23rd March 1919 whilst attached to the Lebanon (Rifle) Engineer Company (RE) in Beirut he was tried by Field General Courts Martial for 'Neglect to the prejudice of good order and military discipline in that he, in the vicinity of ED DAMUR, Syria, on the 23rd March 1919, permitted No. 132966 Pte Doyle RASC to remove a door & other woodwork from a private dwelling house.' For this offence he was reduced to the ranks.
Sapper Bartlett left the Royal Engineers on 4th August 1919, returning to Jersey where he lived at 9 College Hill, St Helier with his wife whom he married in 1916. He later moved to Bel-Air Farm, Sark. which is the address to which his medals were sent on 14th October 1924.
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