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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.
Captain Richard Bolton MC & Bar
British Army 10th Btn. A Coy Cmd. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment
from:Elslack, Skipton.
Pte. Stanley Reeves Bolton
British Army 19th Btn. No.2 Coy. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.27th July 1916)
Stanley Bolton was my great uncle who died on the Somme on 27th of July 1916 aged 27. He is mentioned on the Thiepval Memorial.
He enlisted on the 11th of September 1914 aged 25. At Larkhill he received 3 days confined to barracks for firing at the wrong target. On the 19th of July 16 he was admitted to a field ambulance suffering from rheumatism, then went to 13 Corps Rest Station on the 20th July. He returned to duty on 22nd of July and killed 5 days later.
Pte. Walter Bolton
British Army 1st Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
from:United Kingdom
(d.23rd November 1918)
Private Bolton was the son of William and Mary Bolton.
He was 36 when he died and is buried in the Jhajha Cemetery in India, Grave 42.
Gnr. Walter G. Bolton
British Army 243rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.7th Sep 1917)
Sto. William Bolton
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Queen Mary
from:Dublin
(d.31st May 1916)
William Bolton was the son of Michael and Mary Bolton, of Dublin and husband of Mary Bolton, of 9, Boyne St., Dublin. He was killed in action at Battle of Jutland aged 46. He is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Dvr. William Bolton
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Dublin
(d.11th May 1916)
Pte. William Bolton
British Army 9th Btn. C Coy. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.1st June 1918)
William Bolton was my great uncle and was 21 when he was killed in 1918.
Pte. Willie Bolton MM
British Army 9th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Wakefield
(d.26th April 1918)
Willie Bolton was killed in action.
Sgt Herbert Bolus
Bitish Army 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Willenhall, Staffs
Bert Bolus, born Willenhall, Staffs signed up as a boy soldier around 1904 at Lichfield Barracks. He was almost immediately posted to India and was stationed mainly in Agra, between 1904-1910. Later he served in South Africa and then returned to England, where he was stationed at Aldershot when WW1 began.
He was an Old Contemptible, having been posted to France in August 1914 and was part of the great retreat of August and September 1914. He served continuously through the Great War on the Western Front with the 2nd South Staffs. He fought in many of the famous or infamous battles and engagements between 1914 and 1918. He ended the War as a Sergeant and continued to serve as part of the Army of Occupation in Germany during 1919.
He survived and lived in Willenhall, Staffs until his death in 1966. A wonderful man who never spoke about the Great War, though he was quite happy to talk about India and South Africa. God Bless him.
Pte. A.G. Bonas
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
A Bonas suffered Gunshot wounds in 1918
Pte. Andrew Bonas
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Bellingham
(d.1st July 1916)
L/Cpl. Alfred Bond
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.4th Sep 1918)
Pte. Andy Bond
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba
Andy Bond was born in Braidwood in 1883, he was an Aboriginal labourer and also went by the name of Andy AhHie. He enlisted on the 13th of November 1916, his service records state that he was 5'7&1/2" and weighed 150lbs. He gave his mother's name as Ellen Haddiegaddie, of Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba.
He embarked for England on the 25th of Nov 1916 aboard the Beltana on the 18th of Feb 1917 was admitted to the military hospital at Fovant for a week suffering from Bronchitis.
Whilst at Hurcott with the 14th Training Battalion on the 31st March we went Absent without Leave for 2 days and was awarded 10days Field Punishment No.2 and forfeited 13 days pay amounting to Ć‚Ā£3 5s 0d.
Andy proceeded to France on the 18th Dec 1917 and joined the 33rd Battalion in the field on the 27th. On the 20th April 1918 he was wounded in action by a gas shell, he was treated by 55th Field Ambulance and evacuated to 47th Casualty Clearing Station and taken to the 1st Australian General Hospital at Rouen. He was transferred to England aboard the Western Australia and admitted to the Norfolk War Hospital. On the 11th May 1918 he was discharged to No 2 Command Depot at Weymouth and returned to Australia in August aboard the Essex and was discharged in October.
Andy died in 1943 leaving a daughter Evelyn.
CSM. Arthur Howe Bond MID
British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Taunton
(d.1st July 1916)
CSM Arthur Bond was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. Arthur was twice mentioned in dispatches.
Gnr. C. Bond
British Army Royal Field Artillery
(d.1917)
In 1915 & 1916 C Bond was employed as a servant/butler in the time of Headmaster Rev Frank Stephenson 1906-33 at Felsted School. He joined the Royal Field Artillery as a Gunner and was killed in action. That's all we know.
Lt. Charles Nesbitt Bond
British Army 3rd Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Croydon
(d.30th Jun 1916)
Adjutant Charles Bond served with the 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry and also with the 3rd/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Yeomanry. He was killed in action on 30th June 1916, aged 22. He is buried in the Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of Francis and Ada Bond, of "Uplands" 54, Ashburton Rd., Croydon.
WO2. Francis Bond MM.
British Army 17th (Service) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:10 Vernon St, Briton Ferry, Neath, Glamorgan
Gnr. Frederick Lewis Bond
British Army 1/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Nuneaton
My Grandad Frederick Lewis Bond served with Royal Navy in Devonport from 1914 to 1915 then went into 1/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment to back up troops of the regiment that lost their lives on the Somme. His dad Abraham James Bond was with the 3rd Reserve Battalion that did all the training of the troops ready to go to the war so he probably trained is own son. He was shot and blown up in France and Flanders but survived the war, coming home at the end of 1918.
He worked in a factory in Coventry called Courtalds for about a year then he rejoined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment again in 1919 and stayed in until 1923. He then left the Royal Warwicks and joined the 5th Pack Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery at Warwick on the 20/4/1923 as a gunner, aged 28 years 353 days. He went to Helmieh in Egypt with the RGA and was discharged on 8/10/1925 at Dover.
Pte. Frederick Bond
British Army 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Eppleton
(d.12th Apr 1918)
Frederick Bond has no known grave. His name appears on the Ploegsteert memorial in the Berkshire Regiment Cemetery. He was killed in action during the Battle of Estaires.
Pte. Frederick Lewis Bond MID
British Army 2/7th Btn. Warwicks
from:23 Thompsons Rd., Keresley, Coventry
Frederick Lewis Bond joined up on 2nd Dec. 1915. He went to France on 22nd May 1916 with 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regt. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in the Battle of Fresnoy le Petit in April 1917 for courage and devotion to duty.
He received gsw beetween the legs on 17th April 1918 in the Battle of Kemmel or Mount Kemmel. He had time to recover and finished WW1 service south of Valeciennes 11/11/1918.
He was a great chap, my grandad. He was always happy considering what he and many others went through. He lived till he was 86 years old died in 1980.
He went into hospital in Coventry for a minor operation on his leg were they found parts of bullet casings from WW1 when he was wounded. The bullet fragments had been in his leg all that time from 17th April 1918. When they removed the brass bullet casing from his leg he got gangrene in it. He always used to say "I would have got better treatment in a battle field hospital".
Pte. Frederick Alexander Bond
British Army 50th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:51 Marcia Rd, Bermondsey, S.E.
Frederick Alexander Bond, Private, Machine Gun Corps; Regimental No. 26085, listed on 11th December 1915 and was discharged on 29th March 1918. After his enlistment he was drafted to the Western Front in the following July. Whilst in this theatre of war he took part in the heavy fighting on the Somme and at Ypres, and in various other engagements. He was blown up and buried by a shell, but was fortunately rescued. Later, he was seriously wounded on the Somme and invalided home, and in March 1918 was discharged as unfit for further military duties. He holds the General Service and Victory Medals.
Machine Gun Corps Record Office: 26085 Pte, Bond F.A. 50/MCG late 3 E Surr. Trench Feet Sev Adm 10 Gen Hos Rouen 27th December 1916.
Frederick Alexander Bond died on 16th May 1970 at Hither Green Hospital.
Pte. George Bond
British Army 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.4th Jul 1916)
George Bond, Private 14388, enlisted at Jarrow and served with the 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He died age 21 on the 4th July 1916. He is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow and is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe.
George was born in Jarrow, son of John and Elizabeth Bond (nee Ranson). George Bond age 17 Apprentice Ship Painter in Shipyard is living with his parents John and Elizabeth Bond and family at 48 York Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Sjt. H. Bond
Army 2/8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Brevet Col. Henry Hendley Bond DSO.
British Army 53rd Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Castlelyons, Fermoy
Henry Bond was the son of Mrs M. E. Bond, of The Manor, Castlelyons, Fermoy. He died on 10th November 1919 and is buried in the north-east corner in a private family plot in the Castlelyons Graveyard in Co. Cork, Ireland.
Rflm. Joseph Bond
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dublin
(d.1st July 1916)
Joseph Bond enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery as Gunner 32094.
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