Description:Studio portrait of 15461 Sgt. Bernard Jervis of the Northumberland Fusiliers, stationed at Brocton Camp in June 1917. This photograph was given to Gladys Harvey of Rugeley, who was in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps at Brocton Camp between 1917 and 1919, working in the canteen as a waitress.
Bernard Eustace Jervis was born in Sheffield in 1895 and in the 1911 census he is recorded as working in Sheffield as a stockbroker's clerk. During World War 1 he served as a sergeant in the Durham Light Infantry and then the Northumberland Fusiliers. He survived the war, married and moved to Spalding in Lincolnshire where he worked for the Ministry of Labour. He died in 1983.