Bertram Seymour Hatch (1903), known as Bertie, was born on 1st February 1903, the second of six children of Frederick William Hatch, a baker’s deliverer, and his wife, Harriet Mildred. Bertie was a pupil at Badsey Council School from August 1909 to January 1915 when he passed the County Council scholarship and won the Seward scholarship and transferred to the Grammar School in Evesham. He married Elsie M Compton in 1930. He died at Walpole St Peter, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 24th May 1986.