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Boileau E B W Lt 1st Dorset Regiment

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Boileau E B W Lt 1st Dorset Regiment

BOILEAU, EDWARD BULMER WHICHER, Lieut., 1st Battn. (39th Foot) The Dorset Regt., 2nd s. of Capt. Thomas Smalley Boileau, late 2nd Dorset Regt. and I.S.C., of 97, South Croxted Road, West Dulwich, S.E., by his wife, Selina Mary, dau, of James Whicher, Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; b. Folkestone, co. Kent, 1 Sept. 1898; educ. Imperial Service College, Windsor, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Dorset Regt. 19 July, 1916; promoted Lieut. 19 Jan. 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 24 Nov. 1917; was appointed Lewis Gun Instructor during 1918, and Assistant Adjutant in Sept. 1918, and during the Battle of Damery 11 Aug. 1918, he acted as Liaison Officer to the Brigadier-General. On 8 Aug. 1918, he was chosen to take one sergeant-major and 16 men to represent the battalion at an inspection by the King: and was killed in action at Sequchart, near St. Quentin, 3 Oct. 1918. Buried at Ste. Hélène British Military Cemetery, Pontruet. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was always willing and thoroughly reliable, and always carried out his duties bravely; was cheerful, respected and loved both by officers and men.” and the Major: “His death has been a blow to all who knew him in the battalion. He was loved and esteemed not only by the officers, but especially by the men of the Headquarters Company, which he commanded. He was killed while going forward in the recent attack, in which the battalion did so well, and at a moment when he was doing his duty.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Bogle F Pte 175013 Army Service Corps

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BOGLE, FRANK, Private, No. 175013, Motor Transport, Royal Army Service Corps, elder s. of the late Ernest Bogle, Wholesale Grocer and Provision Mer-hant, by his wife, Elizabeth Selina (124, Alfred Road, Handsworth, Birmingham), dau. of Joseph Bowley; b. Edgbaston, Birmingham, co. Warwick, 19 Dec. 1894; educ. Rookery Road County Council School there was a Machine Pattern Maker; enlisted in the Army Service Corps 5 April, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1918, and in German East Africa from Sept. 1917, and died at No. 30 General Hospital, Calais, 17 Feb. 1919, of influenza following malaria, contracted while on active service. Buried in Les Barraques Cemetery, Calais; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Boden F Pte 5798 11th Royal Sussex Regiment

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BODEN, FREDERICK, Private, No. 5798, 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Frederick Boden, of 38, Miniver Street, Blackfriars, London, S.E., Labourer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Richard Hunter: b. Walworth, S.E., 27 Jan. 1882; educ. Friars Street School there was a Carman for Messrs. Cooper, Fruiterers; enlisted in the Sussex Regt. 13 May, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1 Oct. 1915, and was killed in action on the Menin Road on 27 Sept. 1917. Buried where he fell. His Commanding Officer wrote: “With sympathy and regret at losing a good soldier and comrade, who always had a good character.” Hem. Catherine (20, Miniver Street, Friar Street, Blackfrairs, London, S.E.), dau. of the late Thomas Alexander Turner, and had five children: Frederick, b. 19 Jan. 1909; John, b. 29 Nov. 1915; Catherine Turner, b. 1 July, 1902; Clara Jane, b. 19 May, 1904, and Sarah Jessie, b. 16 Jan. 1913.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Boddice R Pte 41452 1st North Staffs Regiment

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BODDICE, ROBERT, Private, No. 41452, 1st Battn. (54th Foot) The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regt.), only s. of Joseph Boddice, of 95 Lower Midway, near Burton-on-Trent, Sanitary Ware Manufacturer, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Staley; b. Swadlincote, co. Derby, 1 Jan. 1899; educ. Newhall County Council School (Scholar), and Burton Grammar School (where he won a two years’ course of University training, of which, however, he was unable to avail himself, on account of the war); was a Bursar Teacher at Swadlincote County Council School; enlisted in the Staffordshire Regt. 14 March, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 3 March, 1918 was captured at Nesle 25 March, and died a prisoner of war, at the Reserve Hospital, Essen, Germany, 26 July following, of pneumonia. Buried in Cemetery of Honour, Essen. His former schoolmaster wrote: “He was one of the most promising scholars I have ever had under me.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Boast T T 2nd Lt 1st Norfolk Regiment

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Boast T T 2nd Lt 1st Norfolk Regiment

BOAST, THOMAS TOWNSEND, End Lient., 3rd (Reserve), attd. Ist (9th Foot), Battn. The Norfolk Regt., eldest a. of George John Boast, of New Mills, Stockport (late of Holt), by his wife, Mary Ann (-); &. Holt, co. Norfolk, 30 Oct. 1890; edue, there was a Bootmaker’s Manager volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, but was rejected as medically unit; after a second unsuccessful attempt to join up in May, 1916, he was eventually accepted, and enlisted in the Norfolk Regt. & Nov. following: served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 7 March, 1916; returned home to train for a commission 21 Feb. 1917, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Ist Norfolk Regt. 1 Ang. following joined his battalion in France in the following Sept., where he saw much fighting: proceeded with his regiment to Italy in Nov. of the same year, but subsequently returned to France in April, 1918, and was killed in action by a sniper, after fulfilling a most successful and gallant act, capturing a position and number of prisoners. at Neuville, near Cambral, 30 Sept. 1918. Buried in the British Military Cemetery. Neuville Bourjonval, south-west of Cambral. His Major wrote: Your husband was one of my best officers, always cheerful under any circumstances, thoroughly efficient in all his work, and one of the nicest fellows I’ve ever met. All the men had the very highest opinion of him, and would follow him anywhere frequently I have overheard them talking about him, and all the splendid things he had done with the regiment. It is a sad loss to us all, and his death is a bitter grief to us,” and a Private: He was always one of the best of our officers, and always did his best to look after the welfare of his boys.” Another also wrote: He was a fine example to us all, and he would never send one of us where he would not go himself.” He . at Banbury, 6 July, 1918, Doris Adelaide (20, Southam Road, Banbury), 2nd dan. of William Bashette.

Boarer W Pte MM G/21069 11th East Kent Regiment

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BOARER, WALTER, M.M., Private, 11th (Service) Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), 8. of William Boarer, of Old Half Moon, Friars Gate, Withyam, co. Sussex, by his wife, Mary; b. St. John’s, Crowborough, co. Sussex, 28 Nov. 1892; educ. St. John’s School there was a Carter; enlisted 12 Feb. 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following May, and died at Abbeville 21 June, 1918, from wounds received in action near St. Quentin the previous day. Buried in the Communal Cemetery Extension, Abbeville. He was awarded the Military Medal [London Gazette, 12 Oct. 1917], for carrying a wounded officer half a mile under heavy shell fire, and for devotion to duty. He m. at St. John’s Church, Crowborough, Jane Ann (5, Brook Terrace, Crowborough), dau. of John (and Ada) Smith, and had two children: Mary Ada Annie, b. 20 Aug. 1914, and Alice Matilda, b. 19 Aug. 1916.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Bloor H B Sergt 55071 Machine Gun Corps

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BLOOR, HAROLD BERTRAM, Sergt., No. 55071, 34th Battn. Machine Gun Corps, only s. of the late Richard Bloor, by his wife (-) (now wife of S. Westwood, of 3 back, 22 Guest Street, Hockley, Birmingham), dau. of W. H. Tongue; b. Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, 14 Feb. 1900; educ. Warstone Lane there; was a Cycle Worker; enlisted in March, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 16 April, 1917, and died at No. 12 General Hospital, Rouen, 11 Aug. 1918, from wounds received in action at Bethune on or about the 1st of that month. Buried in the St. Séver’s Cemetery Extension, Rouen; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Blogg E B Major DSO Royal Engineers

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BLOGG, EDWARD BASIL, D.S.O., Major, Royal Engineers (T.F.), s. of the late Rev. Fowler Babington Blogg, formerly Rector of Great Mongeham, near Deal, by his wife (-) (Shearfold, Brede, co. Sussex); b. Walmer Vicarage, co. Kent, 31 July, 1887; educ. West Wratting Park, co. Cambridge; was appointed to the Lord Chamberlain’s Office in 1907, and joined the Territorial Force in 1909; gazetted Lieut. 3 July, 1911; on the outbreak of war he volunteered for active service; promoted Capt. in March, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and on the death of his Major, April, 1915, took command of 1/4th Coy. Royal Engineers. While on short leave in England, his company had been moved up to the line north of the Hulluch Road, and he was killed in action near that road, 16 March, 1916, when in the front-line trenches. Buried at Bethune. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service at the Battle of Loos 25 Sept. 1915, and was twice mentioned in Despatches, for gallant and distinguished service in the field; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Blick G R Sergt 200413 7th Middlesex Regiment

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BLICK, GILBERT REXTONE, Sergt., No. 200413, 1/7th (Territorial) Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regt.), s. of Alfred James Blick, of 33, Cottenham Road, Holloway, London, N., by his wife, Annie Louisa, dau. of Thomas Gilbert; b. Holloway, N., 12 Oct. 1892; educ. Grafton Road and Yerbury Road Council Schools there; was a Booking Clerk on the London Electric Railway; joined the Territorial Force in 1909; completed his four years’ service in Nov. 1913; again volunteered for service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at Sittingbourne; went to Gibraltar, but returned to England in Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was wounded during the operations on the Somme in Sept. 1916, and invalided to hospital; rejoined his regiment on recovery, and was killed in action at Arras 3 May, 1917. A comrade wrote: “Our battalion was in action on 3 May, and amongst the missing the same night was your son. On the morning of the 4th I met several of his platoon, and one man told me he saw him wounded and afterwards hit again and killed instantly. He died in the charge with all my company officers. We all miss him very much, as he was our best sergeant and one of the old original boys.” Unm,

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Blease F S L/Cpl 251066 6th Manchester Regiment

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BLEASE, FRANK SHIRLEY, L.-Corpl., No. 251066, 1/6th (Territorial) Battn. The Manchester Regt., s. of the late Walter Duncan Blease, by his wife, Hannah (10, Richmond Grove, Levenshulme); b. Cheetham Hill, Manchester, co. Lancaster, 24 Sept. 1894; educ. Stockport Commercial School; was in the employ of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; joined the Manchester Regt. in May, 1915; served in Egypt from Jan. 1916, and subsequently with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from March, 1917, and died at Grévillers 29 Sept. 1918, of wounds received in action on the 27th. Buried at Grévillers. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I have known him since before he came from England, and of all the men I have had under me since then none have been finer than L.-Corpl. Blease. He was one of the finest N.C.O.’s in the company, and one we could ill spare. His section was the best in the company, and all thought the world of him. I never ask to have a finer soldier or a braver man under my charge, and I wish I had more like him. If ever I wanted a job done, I could always give it to him, and rest content that it would be done, and done well.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5