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Pte. Peter Boland
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.24th May 1915)
Peter Boland was the son of John Boland, of 4, Upper Buckingham St., Dublin. He was killed in action aged 22 in Flanders and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
L/Cpl. Thomas Boland
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.17th Aug 1917)
Thomas Boland was the son of Henry and Mary Boland, of Dublin. He was killed in action in Flanders aged 23 and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Pte. Thomas Boland
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.1st March 1917)
Thomas Boland was born and lived in Dublin and enlisted in Maryborough. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Boland, of Eyre St., Newbridge, Co. Kildare and enlisted as 9835, Royal Irish Regiment. Thomas died of wounds in France aged 20 and is buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte.
Pte. Samuel Walter Bolch
British Army 1st Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:London
(d.15th Sep 1916)
Samuel Bolch served with the 1st Btn. Coldstream Guards.
Pte. James Joseph Bole
British Army 1st Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.14th Apr 1918)
James Bole enlisted in Westminster, he was the son of the late J. W. Bole and Mrs. Bole, of Dublin. He was killed in action in Flanders aged 36 and is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Pte. George Henry Boler
British Army Leicestershire Regiment
from:Chesterfield
My grandad, George Boler enlisted in Lichfield, Derby in 1916. He was wounded and taken as a prisoner of war on the 31st July, 1917. I am trying to find out which battalion he served with and where he was when he was captured by the Germans. Any help would be very much appreciated.
PO. Wilfred Boley
Royal Navy HMS Turbulent
(d.1st June 1916)
Wilfred Boley served on HMS Turbulent.
Pte. Edward Bolger
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.8th Jun 1917)
Edward Bolger was killed in action during the Battle of Messines
Pte. John Bolger
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.18th Mar 1917)
John Bolger was the son of Mary Bolger, of Lower Palmerstown, Chapelizod, Co. Dublin, and the late James Bolger. He died of wounds in France aged 33 and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
Sgt. Michael Bolger
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.12th Aug 1917)
Michael Bolger died of wounds and is buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge. He is remembered on the memorial at St. Mary's, RC Church in Haddington Road, Dublin.
Pte. P. Bolger
British Army 15th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Wexford
(d.25th October 1918)
Private Bolger was the son of Mrs Mary Bolger, of Byrne's Lane, Wexford.
He was 21 when he died and is buried in the middle of the east part of the Kilmacree Old Graveyard, Kilmacree, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Pte. Patrick Bolger
British Army 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers
from:Dublin
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
Pte. Patrick Bolger
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.18th May 1915)
Pte. Patrick Bolger
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Borris, Co Carlow, Ireland
(d.24th May 1915)
Patrick Bolger was the son of James and Mary Dowling Bolger of Inch, Ballymurphy, Borris, Co. Carlow.
Sgt. Peter Bolger
British Army Labour Corps
from:Dublin
(d.1st Nov 1917)
Peter Bolger enlisted as Pte. 4613, Connaught Rangers. He died at home in Dublin from wounds received whilst serving with the Connaughts.
Pte. William John Bolger
British Army 15th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.10th Oct 1916)
William Bolger enlisted in London, he was the son of Mrs. Margaret Bolger, of 53, Queen Square, Dublin. William died of wounds aged 20 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Frederick James Bollands
British Army 16th Battalion Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
Frederick James Bollands was my Great Great Uncle in 1916, aged 40, he served in France, with the 16th Battalion Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment. Service number 2166.
Pte. Walter Bollands
British Army 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
Walter Bollands of Middlesbrough, enlisted on 14/09/1915, age 16 years & 9 months. He was posted to the 3/5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment was a Depot/training units formed in Northallerton and Scarborough, April and March 1915, transferred 08/02/1916 to 5th Yorkshire regiment.
He went to France, Embarking from Southampton with 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment to Rouen. On the 1st of Aug 1916 Aged 17, he saw action on the Somme in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette with the 5th Bat Yorkshire Reg. Between the 7th and 17th August 1916 the 5th Battalion moved from Kemmel to Millencourt, a village just West of Albert in the Somme. On the 11 Aug 1916, Walter joined 150th Machine Gun Corps Frances 50th (Northumbrian) Division, 150th (York & Durham) Brigade and was in action on the 16th Sep 1916 on the Somme in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15th-22nd September) The following day, 17 Sep 1916 he recievd a Gun shot wound to the back, and was sent to Le Treport on the French coast which was the site for some significant hospital provision.
In the 1 Oct 1916 issue of the Green Howard Gazette, Walter is amongst those listed in Sept - Oct 1916. On the 5th Oct 1916 he was admitted to the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Cardonald, Glasgow. But on the 6 Oct 1916 there is a AFW 3016 Army form authorising a wounded man to return to duty and he was posted to 87 Territorial Forces Depot.
On the 16th of Nov 1916 He joined the Highland Light Infantry 2/5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion who were at Danbury, going on to the Curragh in January 1917, Dublin in August, and back to the Curragh in November 1917. On the 20th of Feb 1918 Walter was posted to 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (120th Brigade 40th Division) (202902) in France. On the 1st of Mar 1918 The battalion moved into the front line at Fleurbaix relieving 2/10th K.O.L.R.
On the 9th of Apr 1918, then aged 19, Walter;s Service record shows him as reported missing. Walter Bollands was taken Prisoner of War after the Battle of the Lys, when the Portugeuse line collapsed and was taken to a German POW camp April 1918.
Pte. J. H. Bolsom
British Army 12th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
(d.6th Nov 1917)
Private JH Bolsom served with the 12th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry during WW1 and was killed in action on the 6th November 1917. He is buried in Beersheba War Memorial in Israel.
Pte. J. H. Bolsom
British Army 12th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
(d.6th Nov 1917)
Pte. J H Bolsom died on the 6th November 1917 and is buried in the Geersheba War Cemetery in Israel.
Capt. C. Hawkes Bolster
British Army 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
(d.8th Dec 1914)
Captain Hawkes Bolster is buried in the Youghal (St. Mary's) Collegiate Churchyard, Yaughal, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Pte. Ernest John Bolt
British Army 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:50 Firbeck Street, Denaby Main
(d.25th Apr 1918)
Ernest Bolt served with 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He is remembered at Tyne Cot.
Pte. Earl Bolton
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 4th Btn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
(d.9th Oct 1918)
Earl Bolton died of wounds on the 9th of October 1918, aged 29 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. Born at Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada October 2, 1989, hee Enlisted with the 1st Depot battalion, Western Ontario regiment, London. Ont., February 21,1918. Earl embarked for Britain, February 21, 1918. Transferred to the 4th Reserve Battalion, March 5, 1918. Proceeded to the 4th Reserve Battalion, March 5, 1918
Proceeded to France, August 19, 1918 for service with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He was wounded in action, October 3, 1918.
Pte. Edward Bolton
British Army 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment
(d.14th Apr 1916)
Edward Bolton was executed for desertion 14/04/1916 age 33 and buried in Roclincourt Valley Cemetery, Roclincourt, France.
Pte. George Bolton
British Army 11th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
A/Sgt. Horatio Nelson Bolton
British Army Army Service Corps
from:Swanley, Kent
(d.18th Mar 1917)
Horatio Bolton was born and enlisted in Dublin but resided in Kent. He died in East Africa.
Spr. James Bolton
British Army 109th Railway Coy. Royal Engineers
from:9 Railway Cottages, Great Altcar, Lancashire
The following is a transcript of handwritten notes made by my great-uncle James Bolton: Enlisted 20th November 1915. Called up 30th of October 1917 to join the Royal Engineers at Longmoor. Left Liverpool for Longmoor at 11.00 pm and arrived 8.30 am. We had five weeks training. Then we had leave from the 4th until the 10th Dec, arriving back at 11 o'clock on the 10th. Left for France at 8.30 pm, 12th of Dec and landed Folkstone 4 o'clock on the 13th, boarded the ship for France on the 14th, and left 10.30 am arriving Boulogne 1.50 pm. Went on to St Martins camp arriving 4 pm, left again for Calais 9 o'clock on the 15th arriving 5 pm. After staying a week, we were sent to different companies, with 33 of us going to the 109th Railway Company.
We started off from Calais Saturday morning 22nd and proceeded to Hazelrouck, where we changed for Stumwerck. When we arrived, the Company had moved so we had to go back to Hazelrouck, but the train only took us as far as Strazule where it left us for the night and came back at 8 o'clock and took us to Hazelrouck. We stayed there till 4 o'clock, when we boarded the train for Arnicke. We landed there at 8 pm and were putting for the night when we got orders to pack up and proceed to Poperinghe, where we landed at 2 o'clock in the morning. We stayed there till 10 o'clock when we again set off for Elverdinghe, arriving there at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th Dec. We then had the next day (Christmas Day) off being and started work on the 26th.
We were working on the Light Railway and we put three new sidings in at Wosten, Stoke, and Stone Dump. The rest was maintenance at Luton, Broad St, Charpentire Lancia Road, Stoke Warwick, and Iron Cross. It was here at Elverdinghe about the second week in January that the Germans dropped a bomb and killed 9 horses and one man. The hole it made was 67 feet deep and 27 feet across.
We went on detachment to Toronto Camp from the 20th of Jan until the 20th of Feb, when we returned to Elverdinghe to pack up for Auderdom. While there, we were maintaining broad gauge at Vlamertinghe, Brandhock, and Auderdom through Dickebusch yard English wood up to Elisenwall. It was about this time that the Germans made an attack around Himmil, and we were forced to move to Ougraffe on the 11th of April. We went and took the Dickibusch railway line up. The Germans used to shell us here but we were lucky and had no casualties. We were here only two weeks when we had to move again to Wippenhock , but were there only four days when we had to move again to Abule on the 29th of April. It was on the 28th March that I experienced the heaviest bombardment. It lasted for 48 hours and shook the vans (railway goods wagons) where we were sleeping like leaves. While at Abule we went to Ouderdom yard to salvage some material but it was being shelled it with gas shells and we got slightly gassed. We went again, but the shelling continued and we had to go back.
We then got orders to take up the railroad around by Vlamertinghe. This was in May. The engine took us on a wagon as far as a place called Kettering Junction and gave us a flying shunt (pushed the wagon so it rolled on its own) and we ran about a mile and a half. We started taking up the road and things were pretty quiet. About the fifth morning we were going as usual and when we got part way we could see the line was broken. We jumped off and tried to stop the railway wagon but we couldn't and it fell in the shell hole. We had to get it out and mend the road before we could go to load up.
About the sixth day the Germans began to shell, but we had got past, but they blew up a French gun emplacement and were on the target every time with about a dozen shells. We finished taking up the road next day and we then went repairing between Abule and Godwersvelde. We were sent to St Omer on the 15th June for a couple of weeks rest. After we came back we were working on the gun spurs (branch lines) below Mont De Cat. We put 4 in for 12 inch guns.
We had a pretty quiet time till August when we had 4 chaps and 1 officer wounded. Then we were sent to repair the yard at Runninghelst on 22 Aug. We had not been long when the Germans began to shell us. We moved off the main road into the yard but we had not been long here when 4 of us were killed and 6 wounded. I was picked up and bandaged up and put on a bogey (railway wagon) with two more of the chaps and they ran us up the line for about 2 miles to a dressing station. When we got there they had moved, but they had an ambulance and they took us off to the 2nd Canadian CCS at Esquebeck. I was there two weeks and then moved down to the 2nd Australian General Hospital at Boulogne. I was there five days and then taken aboard the Cambrian for England on the 10th of September 1918. I was taken to Beaufort War Hospital in Bristol, where I stayed for four weeks. I was then sent to convalesce at Longleat House, Warminster. I was there two weeks, and then I went to Plymouth for six weeks. From there I went on ten days sick leave and then rejoined my regiment on the 14th of December. I wasn't fit for training, so they gave me a batman's job with Major Phillips R.A.M.C. at Longmoor Hospital.
CPO. James Henry Adolphus Tremayne Bolton MID.
Royal Navy HMS Moorsom
from:Plymouth
(d.12th Mar 1917)
Henry Bolton was born in Liverpool on the 13th April 1876 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on the 24th September 1892. Having risen to the rate of Chief Petty Officer, Henry was recommended for good services in the action in the North Sea at the Battle of Jutland 31st May - 1st June 1916, during which his ship HMS Moorsom operated as one of six Harwich Force destroyers screening the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron. He left the Moorsom in February 1917 and joined HMS Skate, another destroyer, but one month later HMS Skate was torpedoed and damaged by the enemy submarine UC 69 off the Maas lighthouse in the North Sea. Henry was the only crew member killed. He was married and aged 40.
Lt. John Bolton
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Rossendale
(d.4th June 1915)
John Bolton died on the 4th June 1915, aged 26 and is commemorated on the Sp. Mem. A.67 in the Twelve Tree Copse, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was the son of Henry Hargreaves Bolton and Florence Eliza Bolton, of "Heightside," Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay and lived at Rossendale.
Pte. Reginald John Bolton
British Army 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
(d.14th Aug 1917)
Reginald Bolton was born in Dublin and Enlisted Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
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