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Pte. Colonel Edward Boughton
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Bury St. Edmunds
(d.12th Aug 1918)
Colonel Boughton was my Great Grandfather and died at the age of 32. He had a young wife and two small children.
Pte. E. Boughton
British Army 1/20th Btn. London Regiment
(d.10th Jul 1917)
Sgt. Robert Boughton
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Buncrana, Co. Donegal
(d.13th Apr 1917)
Robert Boughton was born in Dublin, he died of wounds.
Pte. Andrew Bouglas
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Scots
from:Hawick
(d. 26/09/1917)
Unfortunately I don't know much about my Uncle Andrew Bourgas, as he was killed at the early age of 22. My only information was gleaned from the Commonweath War graves casualty web site. As his remains were never found his name has been inscribed on The Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing. It is located 9 kilometers north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg. God rest his soul.
Pte. George Bould
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:2 Marine Cottages, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
George Bould was wounded at the Battle of Loos on 25th of September 1915, receiving a shrapnel wound to the 2nd & 3rd fingers of the left hand. He was admitted to 6th Field Ambulance, then back to the UK on the 2nd if October 1915 for recuperation. He rejoined the battalion on 30th of June 1916.
George was killed in action on the 3rd September 1916, whilst taking part in an attack on the village to Ginchy. His body was never found and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing. He was aged 18 years.
Pte. Thomas Bould
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.11th Sep 1916)
Thomas Bould as the son of Sarah and the late George F. Bould, of Dublin. He died of wounds on the Somme aged 27 and is buried in Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension.
Capt. Edward Boulding
British Army 5th Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment
from:Bonnington, Hythe, Kent
Edward Boulding was born 4th December 1881, Parsonage Farm, Bonnington, Hythe, Kent. He was married to Florence. Before the war he was an assistant Overseer & Rate Collector. Edward had qualified as Assistant Schoolmaster under Board of Education 1906 (Prelim. Certif Exam) and held Language Qualifications in Hindustani (Working Knowledge) and Arabic (Working Knowledge). He was mobilised with his battalion on the 4th August 1914 and in October 1914 he had 2 days embarkation leave prior to joining Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force with D Coy, 5th Buffs. He was promoted to Company Sergent Major on the 1st of May 1915.
The Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad, which occurred between 6–8 January 1916 during the Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War. The battle took place along the banks of the Tigris River between the Anglo-Indian Tigris Corps and elements of the Ottoman Sixth Army. The engagement was the first in a series of assaults by the Tigris Corps to try to break through the Ottoman lines to relieve the besieged garrison at Kut. Edward was wounded at Shaik Said on the 7th of January 1916 He was admitted to hospital on the 17th. Notes by Medical Doctor: Two Gun Shot wounds [enhamcet?] flesh wound right upper arm & VIII 4 severe Right middle finger.
Edward was commissioned on the 29th of Aug 1919. He was the Regimental Signals Officer between July 1918 and Feb 1919. Then he was the Adjutant and Qm Base PL of C from 28th Feb to 4th April. On the 12th of April he became the Officer in Command War Gifts Meso & Sec CRC.
Capt. Edward Boulding
British Army 5th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Bonnington
Edward Boulding, born at Parsonage Farm in Bonnington near Hythe in 1882, was the eldest of four children. His father, a farmer, died very young while Edward was only six or seven years old. As the eldest of the children he helped his mother work the farm and must have learned self-reliance at an early age. In 1900 he became an apprentice blacksmith and wheelwright at Bilsington. He remained at the village forge until he was mobilised as a Territorial at the outbreak of the 1914-18 war. He served in India and Mesopotamia where he was injured at the Battle of Kut (Sheik Sa'ad, 7th January 1916) and later was one of the first British soldiers into Baghdad when it was taken by the 5th regiment the Buffs in March 1917.
After service in Mesopotamia, after which he was commissioned as a Captain, in 1920, two years after the end of the war he returned to England and decided to embark on a teaching career. My late father recalled that his father Edward was at Shorncliffe army training camp when he was born in September 1914. As a baby of a few months old when Edward went off to war he did not know his father until he was eight years old when he returned from the Mesopotamia. My father remembered being taken around the village by a man in uniform to visit aunts and uncles.
After the war Edward Boulding spent two years at Goldsmiths College, London, after which he was appointed assistant master at Pembury. In 1927 he moved to Sandhurst as headmaster living at Windmill Cottage and later buying some land and building Windyridge where he lived until his death in 1960. Edward seemed to be involved in just about every local activity that you can imagine: He was a member of Cranbrook Rural Council and of the parish council and often presided at committee meetings. He helped in negotiations for which he secured the playing field for Sandhurst village. He became a member of the West Kent Div Executive Committee of the KEC. He was governor of Cranbrook School and chairman of the governors of Cranbrook County Secondary School for Boys. Capt. Boulding was also made a foundation governor of the Mary Sheafe School, Cranbrook. His activities in the world of music were so many they could not all be listed. In addition to being church organist, he trained several choirs and was a leader among choral societies and also a keen bell ringer. Among the many village tasks in which he took a pride was keeping the clock on time by winding it regularly. In the last war he was head of the local Special Constabulary.
Rfm. Frank Thomas Boulding
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Mill Hill, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Rflm. John Boulger
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dublin
(d.2nd May 1915)
Pte. Charles William Boulton
British Army Army Cyclist Corps
from:Stoke on Trent
My Grandad Charlie Boulton served in the Army Cyclist Corps during WW1. His date of entry into France was 6 September 1915, and he was de-mobbed from Salonika in 1919.
His war records do not survive, other than his de-mob certificate and medal roll index card. My sister has a tiny war diary which mainly has shopping lists from when he was a batman to Charles Garfield Lott Du Cann (father of Sir Edward Du Cann and Richard Du Cann) - the lists always include a lemon so I reckon they always had gin! There is also the record of a sea voyage where they made the tea with sea water, so no great details of battles - only food!
I hope to transcribe the diary and get in touch with the Du Cann family to see if there are any family records there, as Charles Du Cann was a journalist and author.
Pte Charles Vernon Boulton
British Army 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Market Drayton
(d.27th August 1917)
Pte, Charles Edward Boulton
British Army
Apparently Charles Boulton became a PoW on or around 22nd of September 1914 and spent the war in German camps. He was eleased officially in February, 1919. He was married to Annie Sarah Walden in Gloucestershire, August 1911.
Gnr. George G. Boulton
British Army 129th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Long Newnton, Gloucestershire
(d.21st February 1917)
Pte. James Boulton
British Army 11th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Stockport
(d.7th July 1916)
L/Bmbdr. Raymond Wright Boulton
British Army 165th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.12th April 1918)
Lance Bombardier Raymond Boulton served with the 165th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. On 12th April 1918 he was killed in action, aged 32. He is buried at St Amand British Cemetery.
Lt. Stephen Philip Boulton
Australian Imperial Force 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
from:Australia
(d.3rd Oct 1918)
Stephen Philip Boulton was born at Clunes, Victoria in 1890 and worked as a bank official at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia before the outbreak of the First World War. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 12th January 1915 and was assigned to the 1st Divisional Ammunition Column and then to the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade. Boulton departed Sydney aboard HMAT Runic on 19th February 1915. He was stationed briefly in Egypt before being deployed to Gallipoli on 1st October 1915.
Boulton was promoted to bombardier on 15th May 1916, to corporal on 19th August 1916 and to lieutenant on 3rd February 1918. On 28th January 1918 he was assigned to duty at Pigeon School followed by time at the Corps Gas School. Stephen Boulton was wounded by a gas shell in his dugout and died on 3rd October 1918. He is buried at Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Able.Sea. William Ernest Boulton
Royal Naval Reserve Drake Battalion
from:Stoke on Trent
(d.25 Mar 1918)
While researching my family tree, I came across a record for William Ernest Boulton, my 1st cousin, twice removed. It states that he was an Able Seaman with Drake Battalion, RN Division and that he died on the 25th March 1918 as a direct result of enemy action. It also states that he is buried about 300 metres from the north corner of Foureaux Wood, Martinpiny, France. I searched for him on the CWGC & the TWGPP sites and they say he is buried in the Arras Memorial Cemetery, Pas de Calais. He left a widow, Martha.
Editors Note: The Arras Memorial lists the missing and those whose graves could not be identified at the end of the war.
L/Cpl. William Boulton
British Army 13th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Battersea, London
(d.28th April 1917)
Pte. John George Boumphrey
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:55 Furness St., West Hartlepool
(d.28th Mar 1918)
John Boumphrey was the son of Thomas and Isabella Boumphrey. He was married to Nora Boumphrey, of 55, Furness St., West Hartlepool and was aged 24 when he died. John is buried in Bellacourt Military Cemetery.
Pte. Joseph Bounds
British Army HMHS Ellora Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Hollowell, Northants
(d.14th July 1917)
Sgt. Robert Bourhill
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh
(d.23rd Mar 1915)
Robert Bourhill was the son of Henry and Marion Bourhill of Ramsay Square, Loanhead and Husband of Sarah Bourhill of Elm Grove, Loanhead, Edinburgh. He was killed aged 24 and is remembered on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
Pte. William Bourhill
British Army 7th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Musselburgh, East Lothian
William Bourhill is my great grandfather, who served in the 7th Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from the start of WWI. He fought with his battalion right through until being captured, and was sent to labour in a salt mine in Austria. He would never discuss his experiences in the trenches or the salt mines with the rest of the family.
Up until the death of his eldest daughter (my great aunt), we had his Glengarry, medals, and other regimental paraphernalia, along with some other pictures and letters to my great grandmother. Sadly, however, these have been lost with her second husband's family clearing the house.
Lt. John Joseph Bourke
Australian Imperial Force 5th Infantry Battalion
from:Australia
(d.20th Sep 1917 )
John Joseph Bourke was born at Edi, Victoria in 1892 and worked as a miner before the outbreak of the First World War. He was 22 years old when he enlisted in the 5th Infantry Battalion on 17th August 1914. He departed Melbourne aboard HMAT Orvieto on 21st October 1914. Bourke landed at Gallipoli late on 25th April 1915 with the 5th Infantry Battalion, suffering a head wound in the process. After recuperating in Alexandria, Bourke re-joined his unit on the Gallipoli peninsula in June, but only served two months before returning to Egypt to recover from fever.
In 1916, Bourke moved to France and was transferred to the 2nd Machine Gun Company and received two quick promotions. In August 1916, he was promoted to corporal and then again to sergeant in November. In early 1917, Bourke attended the Australian Machine Gun Training Depot at Belton Park in England and then transferred to 21st Machine Gun Company.In the process, he become a second lieutenant. After returning to active duty in France in March 1917, Bourke fell ill, forcing a return to England. On 20th September 1917, a little over a month after becoming a lieutenant, he was killed in the fighting at Menin Road. John Bourke is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
2nd Lt. Thomas Leslie Bourke
British Army 10th Training Depot Station Royal Air Force
from:Dublin
(d.9th Sep 1918)
Thomas Bourke died of wounds at home in Dublin and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.
Major Eleanor Bourne
Women's Hospital Corps
Australian Dr (Major)Eleanor Bourne joined the Women's Hospital Corps founded by Dr (Lieutenant Colonel) Louisa Garrett Anderson and Dr (Lieutenant Colonel) Flora Murray in 1914. She worked as a surgeon at their Endell Street Military Hospital London, as did four other Australian women doctors, from 1916 to 1917. The others were: Dr (Captain) Rachel Champion, Dr (Captain) Elizabeth Hamilton-Browne, Dr (Lieutenant) Emma Buckley and Dr (Lieutenant) Vera Scantlebury
Pte. George Bourne
British Army 16th (Public Schools) Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Maplehurst, Sussex
(d.10th May 1917)
George Bourne is listed on the war memorial at St Andrews Church, Nuthurst, near Horsham, Sussex
2nd Lt. James Matthes Bourne
Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
from:Ditchling, E. Sussex
(d.17th June 1918)
Second Lieutenant Bourne was the Son of Henry and Ellen Bourne, husband of Hilda Bourne of Northgate, Ditchling, E. Sussex. He was aged 42 when he died and is buried in the Madras (St. George's) Cathedral Cemetery in Chennai, India.
2Lt. Ralph Bourne
British Army 158th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.10th September 1917 )
Ralph Bourne, son of Arthur Mason & Edith Mary Bourne was born on the 10th January 1894 in Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, his father was a mining engineer. He travelled to the UK in 1899 with his parents and siblings John & Marjery. The 1901 census shows him living with his mother and siblings at the home of his widowed paternal grandmother Ethel Bourne of Hilderstone Manor, House, Stone, Staffordshire. At some time before 1905 the family move to Bedford where he attends Bedford Modern School. In 1908 he then attends Bridgnorth Grammer School, his mother is still living in Bedford whilst his father is believed to be working in Mexico. He leaves school in 1910 but does not appear on the 1911 census with his mother and siblings, it is possible he returned to Argentina. At the time the CWGC records are compiled his mother is living at 101 St. George's Square, London.
He initially served with the Royal Field Artillery as a Private before he was commissioned and moved to the 158th Brigade Royal Field Artillery( new unit formed in April 1917)
He was killed in action on 10th September 1917 during the Ypres Salient, his battery was at Nieuport-les-Bains, and is buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium. He is remembered on the Bridgnorth War Memorial. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1905-08, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. The Old Boys of this School who, as in duty bound, laid down their lives in a great cause. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. Reginald Charles Bourne
British Army 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
(d.8th Aug 1917)
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