Bertha Willmott

She was born in West Ham in Essex in 1894, the second of four daughters of Henry Benjamin Willmott (1863 - 1929), an engine fitter, and his wife Bertha Vivian (1872-1953), who married in 1891.

During World War I she appeared in the revue Razzle-Dazzle which opened in June 1916 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where it ran for 408 performances.

While playing in the chorus at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square in 1918 she met Reginald Thomas Bishop Seymour (1895-1962), a Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery.

[9] In 1938 she appeared with Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in the BBC radio broadcast of George Edwardes, an "illustrated biography" of the Edwardian musical impresario.

[10] In 1941 she sang music hall favourites in a BBC radio broadcast for military personnel serving during World War II,[11] while in 1943 she played The Singer in Millions Like Us, a war-time British propaganda film.