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Pte. Richard Thomas Bourne
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. William Bourne
British Army 10th Btn Sherwood Foresters
from:7 Allestree St, Alvaston, Derby
(d.7th Aug 1916)
William Bourne was my Great Uncle but I have no other knowledge other than he lived with his Mother and Sisters at 7 Allestree St Alvaston Derby. He was killed at Delville Wood and his memorial is on Thiepval monument, which my wife and I have visited.
Pte. Herbert Frederick Bourner
British Army 15th Battalion London Regiment
from:Peckham, London
Herbert Bourner was my husband’s Great Uncle. He enlisted on the 8th November 1915, in the 15th Battalion The London Regiment. He was 26 years old, had been married for 4 years to Alaethea Buckland and was an Engineer. He was sent to France on the 21st. March 1916. He was back home September that year to January 1917. From the records I can see he was wounded but not exactly when or where. Presumably he was convalescing. He was sent back to France 12th January 1917. He was wounded again on the 6th December right arm & thick fracture; some researched revealed it must have been in the Battle of Cambrai (20 November – 7 December 1917 ). He was also taken prisoner on the same day, until 4th May 1918. How he got back home on the 5th is yet uncertain.
He was discharged 25th July. Medals awarded were the standard British War Medal and Victory Medal, which he still had not received by May 1921. If anybody has any additional information I would welcome it. Thanks.
Eugene Valentine Bourque
Canadian Expeditionary Force
from:Montreal
It was just about 100 years ago when Canadian Eugene Bourque Sr. was discharged from the military. His legacy includes some of the bloodiest battles of World War I, including the Somme and Passchendaele. It also includes a grandson, David Eugene Bourque of Altamont, who has kept the soldiers experiences alive, thanks to a collection of war mementos.
Eugene Bourque was born in Moncton in the province of New Brunswick in 1887. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in 16th of March 1916 in Montreal. His two older brothers Edgar and Louis also enlisted. He trained in England and was sent to France that October. Over the next two years he was involved in 11 major battles. Amazingly, all three brothers returned. They left the war, but the war didn't leave them. My Grandfather was shelled at Vimy Ridge and many years later he would occasionally use tweezers to pull out pieces of shrapnel from his arms.
After the war he returned to Canada and married Lola Barnhardt of Ontario. They had a son, Alan, born in Montreal, then moved to Albany and had their second son, Eugene V. Bourque Jr., Dave's father, the first of their family born in America. (Allan joined the U.S. Army and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.) Eugene Sr. died on May 12, 1966.
He passed away when I was nine so the few personal memories that I have of my grandfather are fading. I cannot recall him ever mentioning the war. The only thing that comes to mind is him responding to me at a meal when I asked how he liked it. He replied he couldn't really taste it because he had lost his sense of smell and taste during the war. Losing the sense of smell was likely from mustard gas exposure. As a boy, I would ask to see his grandfather's war medals but now don't recall that he explained what they stood for. When he passed there was no inheritance, as my grandmother was still alive. But there was one envelope with my name on it. Inside were the medals. Being only nine at the time I did not understand the significance. I certainly do now and I am proud to be able to share his story.
Here are the battles Eugene Bourque Sr. was involved in: The Battle of the Somme in November 1916 and Vimy Ridge April, 1917. During his 2nd engagement at Vimy Ridge he was wounded by cannon fire. He was hospitalized at Govan Merryflats Hospital near Glasgow, Scotland. After recovery he was transferred to Hastings, England. During the late summer of 1917 he volunteered to return to active duty. He was at Hill 70 in August 1917, Passchendaele September to October 1917 and back on the The Somme in March 1918 during the German advance. He was at Amiens and Arras in August 1918, Drocourt - Queant in September 1918, Canal de Nord September to October 1918 and Cambrai in October 1918.
L/Cpl Edward Albany Bousfield MM
British Army 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Lt. J. K. Bousfield
Royal Flying Corps
Lt Bousfield was a POW in Holzminden in Brunswick. He escaped on the night of 23-24 July 1918 along with 29 other prisoners. He made it to Holland along with nine other escapees.
L/Cpl. Sydney Hudson Bousfield
British Army 17th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Carlisle
Pte. Joseph P Boutke
British Army 2/7th Battalion Manchester Regiment
(d.7th October 1917)
Pte. Daniel Bovis
British Army 1st Btn. Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Sandhurst, Kent
(d.24th Oct 1914)
Daniel Bovis was the second son of David Bovis and his wife Eliza nee Harvey. He was born on 5th April 1897 at Crowland in Salehurst, Sussex, although the 1901 Census gives the birthplace as Bodiam.
He put his age up by two years and joined the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment on 15th or 16th of August 1913. It is possible he may have served, therefore, in Ireland before the 1st Battalion moved to France in 1914 and would have fought at Mons and throughout the Retreat.
He carried one of his wounded schoolfellows, from Sandhurst Council School, who was serving in the same company, about a mile and a half to the rear, during the First Battle of Ypres. Daniel was killed soon after returning to the firing line on the 24th of October 1914. He is commemorated on the Richebourg-l'Avoue Memorial.
Cpl. Frederick Bowater
British Army Army Service Corps
from:Salford
Rfn. Thomas Bowater
British Army 9th (Service) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
from:Rowley Regis
(d.1st Sep 1916)
Bowdary
Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Albert Ernest Bowden
Australian Imperial Force C Company 32nd Battalion
from:Kirupp, Western Australia
Albert Bowden was born in London, Middlesex, in 1890 to Thomas Lyle Bowden and Louisa Ann Bowden (nee Neck).
Albert was 24 and 8 months old and working as sleeper hewer (cutting wood sleepers for building train tracks) in Kirupp, Western Australia, when he enlisted in AIF in Western Australia on 1stof June 1916. At the time his parents lived in Pyworthy, Devon, England. Albert was transferred into C Company, 32nd Battalion on 16th August 1916 and assigned regimental number 892.
He trained at Blackboy Hill Camp, Western Australia, and Cheltenham Camp, South Australia. He embarked for the war on the HMAT Geelong on 18th of November 1915 departing from Port Adelaide, South Australia. He disembarked in Suez, Egypt, on 18th December 1915. In Egypt, as part of the defence of the Suez Canal, he underwent training for 6 months with his unit before embarking on the HMAT Translyvania on 17th of June 1916 at Alexandria.
He disembarked from the Translyvania in Marseilles, France, on 23rd June 1916 and, along with his unit, was entrained northwards to the Western Front near Armentieres. He suffered a shrapnel bullet wound to his right shoulder during the disastrous Battle of Fromelles on 19th of July 1916.
On 20th of July 1916 he was evacuated from the battlefield and shipped to England. On 25th of July 1916 he was admitted to the Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury. On 10th of August 1916 Albert was admitted to the Bricket House Hospital from which he was discharged just prior to 18th of September 1916.
He rejoined the 32nd Battalion at Fricourt on the Somme battlefield on 9th of February 1917. Albert spent most of the war in the field with the 32nd Battalion without further injury and only suffered one bout of mumps during March-April 1917.
He survived the war and departed Liverpool, England, on the HT Wyreema on 13th April 1919 and returned to live in Western Australia. At a later date he returned to live in England, at Great Knowle, Pyworthy, Devon. He passed away in 1970 aged 79 and was buried in St. Swithun Church graveyard, Pyworthy, Devon.
Pte. Charles Bowden
British Army 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment
from:Bridgetown Totnes
(d.9th May 1915)
Private Charles Bowden of the 2nd Devonshire Regiment died on May 9th 1915 aged 25. He was the son of John Jeffrey and Mary Jane Bowdon and lived in Bridgetown Totnes.
RSM. Frederick Bowden
British Army 11th Btn Sherwood Foresters
from:Furness Vale, Derbyshire
Fred Bowden was a stonemason with Great Western Railways and a Territorial before the War. He served for the entire war including the first day of the Somme at Authuille Wood near Albert. He is the only name mentioned in the Regimantal Diary in the planning for the Sommes battle. "Lance-Corporal Fred Bowden to take charge of prisoners". He won a Military Medal at San Sisto Ridge, Asiago in Italy in 1918, no citation exists.
In the final weeks of the war a shell took out one inch of his shin and he spent several months in Scotland convincing surgeons not to amputate his leg. He wore special shoes from this time on due to his shorter leg. He finished the war as a Regimental Colour-Sergeant and a photograph exists of him wearing a red sash over his uniform.
Pte. Patrick Bowden
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.26th Nov 1915)
Patrick Bowden enlisted Birmingham. He died of wounds.
Pte. Robert William Bowden
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:The Nobs, Yarrowitch via Walcha, New South Wales
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Robert Bowden enlisted aged 19, he was a Labourer from New South Wales and had attended Yarrowitch Public School. He was killed in action near Plugstreet Wood during the Battle of Messines on the 7th of June 1917, he was then 20 years old and has no known grave.
Pte. S. Bowden
South African Infantry 5th Regiment
(d.14th June 1917)
Private Bowden was the son of John and Mary Elizabeth Bowden. He was 24 when he died and is buried in the Alice Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Pte. Albert E. Bowder
British Army 1st Btn. C Company Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regiment
from:Easton on the Hill
(d.19th Oct 1916)
Albert Bowder first joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1915, then transferred to the Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, 1st Battalion C Company during the battle of the Somme in September 1916. He was killed in action on 19th October 1916 possibly during attack on Spectrum Trench at Les Beoufs towards end of Battle of Somme.
Pte. John Bowditch
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:63 New Market St. Burnley, Lancashire
(d.9th Apr 1916)
John Bowditch served with the 6th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment during WW1 and he was killed in action on the 9th April 1916. He is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial, Iraq.
Pte. John Bowditch
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:63 New Market St. Burnley, Lancashire.
(d.9th April 1916)
John Bowditch died on the 9th of April 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Pte. Albert Henry Bowe
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:5 Dale Terrace, New Shildon
(d.1st Mar 1917)
Albert Bowe enlisted on the 21st Btn DLI and served with 18th DLI. He was killed on the 1st of March 1917 aged 19 and is remembered on a special memorial in Gommecourt British Cemetery No2 at Heuterne, he is known to be buried in this cemetery but the actual site of his grave is unknown. He was the son of Henry and Margaret Bowe, of 5, Dale Terrace, New Shildon, Co. Durham. His father paid for the inscription 'Ever remembered' to be engraved on the headstone.
Pte. Alfred William Bowen
Army Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry
This man was my Father's oldest brother born abt 1900 all my Dad knows is that he served in the Ox and Bucks during the Great War and all he has is his Pocket Prayer Book "Active Service" 1914. My Father is 88yrs now and would love to know what campaignes my uncle would have been likely to have been involved in.
Pte Daniel Rufus Bowen
British Army 14th Battalion Welsh Regiment
from:51 Amos Hill, Penygraig, Rhondda, Glamorgan
(d.24th October 1918)
Rufus Bowen was shot in the head by a sniper at Etaples, and died the next day. According to family lore, it was his first day at the Front. He was 19 years old.
Pte. E. Bowen
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. G. Bowen
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Col. Hugh Rice Bowen DSO CDG
British Army
I noticed Colonel Bowen's grave in a local cemetery in ,Essex. He was born in 1880 and died in 1954.
Cpl. John Bowen
British Army 19th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Trimdon Grange, Easington
My grandfather, John Bowen, had been married for only two and a half years when he enlisted for military service on 29th May 1915, at Newcastle, England. He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers, was posted to the 19th Battalion, and served with the British Army. He saw overseas service in France as part of the British Expeditionary Forces from 16th December 1916 to 11th September 1917 and again from 24th September to 9th November 1917.
He was mustard gassed by the Germans and returned to England for rehabilitation. He was discharged on medical grounds on 4th July 1918.
John Bowen obtained the rank of Corporal and received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
2nd Lt. Thomas Henry Bowen
British Army 6th Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.2nd Aug 1916)
Thomas Bowen was attached to 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he as killed in action. He is buried in Berkshire Cemetery Extension, Ploegsteert, Belgium.
A/Sgt. Vincent Bowen MM & Bar.
Canadian Expeditionary Force 18th Battalion
from:Guelph, Ontario
(d.26th August 1918)
Vincent Bowen served with the Western Ontario Regiment, he was previously living at Areley Kings, Worcestershire and had moved to Canada before the war.
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