and only surviving _s._ of William Edward Thomas Bolitho, of
York House, Penzance, and Hannaford, Ashburton, D.S.O., J.P., Banker,
Major 1st Devon Yeomanry, now Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2/1st battn. of
the same [a cadet of Bolitho of Trewidden], by his wife, Ethel Grace,
2nd dau. of Robert Bruce Æneas Macleod, of Cadboll, co. Cromarty,
and Invergordon Castle, co. Ross, J.P., D.L., Comm. R.N.; _b._
Pendrea, Penzance, co. Cornwall, 13 Nov. 1892; educ. Warren Hill,
Eastbourne, and Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He passed
into Osborne College at 12¾ years old, and was given a remove from
his own term to a term above, which was only very specially done.
He continued to be head of his term, and passed out of Osborne and
Dartmouth Colleges with top marks. He joined H.M.S. Cumberland at
Devonport in Jan. 1909, and also passed out first from there after
a six months’ cruise, taking three prizes. He was then appointed to
H.M.S. Commonwealth as midshipman with four months’ seniority; he
served in H.M.S. Cochrane and in H.M.S. Bellerophon, when he left the
Navy of his own accord. As midshipman in the Bellerophon he won the
Stoddart Cup for boat sailing, presented by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.
He then joined the Army by the Special Reserve, serving four months
with the 11th Hussars at Aldershot, and passing into the Army by
examination at Portsmouth in April, 1913; he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to
the 19th Hussars 23 May, and joined 24 June, 1913. On the outbreak of
war he crossed to France with B Squadron on 23 Aug. 1914, and served
with it throughout the winter and spring. He was killed in action near
Chateau Hooge, 24 May, 1915; _unm._ His Major, writing to his
father, said: “Your son is a great loss to us, his name had been sent
in for special mention after the operations on 13 May, when he found
himself temporarily in command of the squadron, and made very good use
of his opportunity.”
[Illustration: =William T. M. Bolitho.=]
=BOLLAND, THEODORE JULIAN=, Major, 9th Battn. King’s Liverpool
Regt. (T.F.), late 16th Rajputs; _b._ 9 Jan., 1870; gazetted 2nd
Lieut. unattached from the Militia 23 Nov. 1892, and after serving
with the Manchester Regt., was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps, 27
Feb. 1894; joined the 16th Rajputs; promoted Lieut. 23 Feb. 1895, but
was obliged to resign owing to severe attacks of malaria; went on half
pay 26 April, 1900; and retired 11 June, 1902; volunteered for service
when war broke out, and was gazetted Capt. 2nd Queen Victoria’s Rifles
(6th London Regt.) 6 Sept., 1914; exchanged into the 9th Liverpools in
March, 1915, went to France a few days later, was promoted Major on the
30th and was killed in action there 9 April following.
=BOLSTER, GEORGE EMIL=, Major, R.F.A., eldest _s._ of
the late Surg.-Major Thomas Gardiner Bolster, A.M.S., by his wife,
Ludivina (44, Lebanon Park, Twickenham), dau. of the late Lieut.-Col.
John Frederic Nembhard, Bengal Army; _b._ Dagshai, India, 21
July, 1876. His childhood was spent at the various places where his
father happened to be serving--India 4½ years, Devonport 2½ years, and
Halifax, N.S., 5 years, during the whole of which time his mother was
his sole instructress. On returning from Canada in 1888, he was sent
to Ipswich School, and in 1883 passed direct into the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich. At the final examination two years later he passed
out sixth on the R.A. list, and was awarded the prize for artillery.
Gazetted on 2 Nov. 1895, he was promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1898, Capt.
1 Sept. 1901, and Major 17 Feb. 1912. Most of his time as subaltern
was spent in Northern India, where he acted for two cold seasons as
Staff Officer of the late Brig.-Gen. R. Purdy, R.A. The 36th Battery,
to which he was posted on promotion, came home early in 1903, and was
stationed at Newbridge, Ireland, where he was at once made Adjutant of
the 35th Brigade, which post he held for over three years. In 1909 he
was appointed Staff Capt. R.A., 5th Division Irish Command, but vacated
that appointment in 1911, on being nominated for the Staff College.
On completing the course, he was posted to the 106th Battery in South
Africa. Recalled to England on the outbreak of war, his battery joined
the camp of the 7th Division at Lyndhurst, and with it proceeded
to Belgium. They were in the advance to Ghent to support the Naval
Division from Antwerp, and the Belgian Army, and shared the hardships
of the subsequent retreat to Ypres. He was killed in the historic
stand which the 7th Division made near that place, 23 Oct. 1914. His
engagement to Coralie, elder dau. of Col. Thomas de Burgh, of Oldtown,
Naas, was announced one month before his death. Lieut.-Col. D. Fasson,
commanding 22nd Brigade, R.F.A., wrote: “As a battery commander, he
was hard to beat, and I certainly have never met a keener soldier. His
whole heart was in his work.”
[Illustration: =George Emil Bolster.=]
=BOLTON, CHARLES=, 1st Class Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8166), S.S.
103986, _s._ of William Bolton, by his wife, Louisa (Towns End,
New Buckingham, near Attleboro’, Norfolk), dau. of Robert Duffield;
_b._ Scole, 7 Oct. 1888; educ. there; joined the Navy 1906, and
was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept.
1914; _unm._
[Illustration: =Charles Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, ERNEST JAMES=, Private, No. 10221, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of George Moore Bolton, of 60, East Street, Coventry;
_b._ Warwick; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action between 21 Oct. 1914 and 5 Feb. 1915; _unm._
=BOLTON, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6944, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=BOLTON, HARRY HARGREAVES=, Capt., 5th Battn. East Lancashire
Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of
Heightside, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., Colliery
Owner, by his wife, Florence Eliza, dau. of Thomas Allen, of the Manor
House, Thurmaston, Leicester; _b._ Accrington, co. Lancaster,
9 Feb. 1886; educ. Mostyn House School, Parkgate; and at Shrewsbury
School, and after being at home for a short time, gaining some
knowledge of the working of collieries, he went to Wigan, and attended
for two years a course of mining instruction, part of which consisted
of practical work underground in the mines of the Wigan Coal and Iron
Company, Ltd., afterwards returning to Accrington Collieries to gain
further experience, with a view to sitting for examination for the
first-class mine manager’s certificate. This he obtained in Dec. 1912.
Soon after, on the retirement, through ill-health, of the late Mr.
James Whittaker, he was appointed to the responsible position of agent
for the Accrington Collieries of Messrs. George Hargreaves & Co., of
which his father was managing partner. He joined the 5th (Territorial)
Battn. of the Manchesters at Bolton in 1905, which was then the 1st
Battn. Volunteers, but on his return to Accrington he transferred to
the 5th Battn. of the East Lancashires, and having passed the school
of instruction for qualification to the Regular service, was given
his commission as Capt. 25 July, 1911. On the outbreak of war he and
his brother both volunteered for foreign service, and went out with
their regt. from Burnley to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and on 5 May, 1915,
to the Dardanelles. He wrote home from the transport on that day, and
nothing more was heard until a telegram was received to say that he had
been wounded on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915, shot in the head, and he
died without gaining consciousness the same day. Capt. Bolton took a
great interest in the work of the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners’
Rescue station, formed for the purpose of rescuing men at underground
explosions, going through the course of training instruction with the
Accrington Collieries rescue team, and obtained a certificate for
competency. At the time of the Hulton Colliery explosion he took a
team of men over fully equipped with the necessary appliances and went
underground to help in the work required after the explosion. He was
also a keen supporter of the National Service League, and was Secretary
for the Accrington district. Closely associated with St. Augustine’s
Church and School, Huncoat, he took a boys’ class in the Sunday
School there regularly up to the time of his marriage. He _m._
at Habergham Church, Burnley, 1 June, 1911, Helen Oliver, dau. of
Alexander Drew, of Holme Lodge, Burnley, J.P., and they lived at High
Brake, Accrington, and had two children: George Henry Hargreaves,
_b._ 14 Feb. 1914; and Rhona Helen Allen, _b._ 2 April, 1915.
Capt. Bolton’s next brother, Lieut. John Bolton, was also killed at
the Dardanelles (see his notice), and his two younger brothers, Lieut.
Maurice Bolton and Lieut. Geoffrey Bolton, and his brother-in-law,
Lieut. Douglas Hacking, Conservative candidate for Chorley, are now
(1916) on active service.
[Illustration: =Harry Hargreaves Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, JAMES FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1909),
late Ch. I/12380, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22
Sept. 1914.
=BOLTON, JOHN=, Lieut., 5th Battn. East Lancashire Regt.
(T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of Heightside,
Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., etc. (see preceding
notice); _b._ Accrington, co. Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1889; educ.
Tonbridge School, and Manchester University. On leaving the latter,
where he took the three years’ mining engineering course, he was
engaged at the Accrington and Rossendale Collieries, of which his
father was Managing Director, and after a short time was placed in
charge of the commercial department at Accrington, and was soon
recognised as a capable and energetic business man. He was given a
commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the East
Lancashires, 19 June, 1913, and volunteered for Imperial service on
the outbreak of war. His regt. went out to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and
while there he took a special course in scouting under Gurkha officers,
and was made Scout Master of the battn. He received his Lieutenant’s
commission 6 May, 1915, and sailed for the Dardanelles the same day.
He was killed by a shell which fell in the front line trenches, in the
bombardment before the advance on Krithia, 4 June. After his death his
father received from General Douglas, commanding 42nd Division, the
following card of congratulation which had been sent to him, but before
it reached him he had been killed: “The General Officer commanding
the 42nd (East Lancs.) Division congratulates Lieut. J. Bolton, 1/5
Battn. East Lancs. Regt. on the gallant action performed by him on 12
May, 1915. Signed C. O. W. Douglas, M. Genl. Commd., 42nd Division.”
The action referred to was fetching ammunition from the base under
fire of the enemy, when the battn. ran short in the trenches. He was
_unm._ and was buried at Ghurka Bluff, Gallipoli.
[Illustration: =John Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, JOHN=, Private, No. 2575, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards;
_b._ co. Lancaster; enlisted 1 April, 1899; served in South
Africa, 9 Aug. 1900 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps
and King’s medals with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force
in France, etc., from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital,
Braisne, 8 Oct. following, of wounds received in action; _m._
=BOLTON, JOSEPH CROOK=, Private, No. 25689, 14th Battn. (Royal
Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of (--)
Bolton; _b._ Clitheroe, 3 June, 1883; educ. Royal Grammar School
there; went to Canada in Oct. 1912, and was a painter; on the outbreak
of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted, came over with the first contingent in
Oct.; went to the Front, 10 Feb. 1915, and died 23 April, 1915, of
wounds received in the great Canadian Charge at St. Julien. He was
buried in Vlamertinghe Churchyard, Belgium. He _m._ 20 May, 1907,
Emma (52, Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, Lancs), dau. of (--) Rushton, and
had two children: Frank, _b._ 12 May, 1910; and Marjorie Esther,
_b._ 4 Nov. 1908.
[Illustration: =Joseph Crook Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, WILFRED=, Private, No. 260, 15th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, _s._ of (--) Bolton, of Normanton, Yorkshire;
killed in action at the Dardanelles, 18 May, 1915.
=BOLTON, WILFRID=, Sub-Lieut. R.N.V.R., Collingwood Battn.,
R.N.D., 2nd _s._ of Henry Lushington Bolton, of The Sanctuary,
Westminster, and The Gables, Crowborough Beacon, Sussex, Solicitor, by
his wife, Chloe, dau. of James Richard Gordon; _b._ Porchester
Terrace, London, 26 May, 1897; educ. at The Grange, Crowborough;
Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Osborne and Dartmouth. On leaving Dartmouth
in April, 1914, he was rejected for the Navy on account of a slight
defect in sight. On the outbreak of war joined the R.N.V.R., and was
killed in Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915.
=BOLTON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 15252, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots
(Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action at Kemmerl, 29 May, 1915; _m._
=BON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2399, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian
Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in
action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct., 1914.
=BOND, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 10752, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,
1st _s._ of Joseph Bond, of 44, Brough Street, Derby, Warder,
Derby Prison, by his wife, Kate, dau. of the late Thomas Gordon, of
Derby; _b._ Derby, 1 March, 1895; educ. St. Joseph’s R.C. School
there; was for some time a Porter at the Great Northern Railway Station
at Derby, and enlisted 1 June, 1914. He was sent to France 9 Oct.
following, was severely wounded in the fighting around Ypres, 19 Nov.
1914, and died at No. 4 Clearing Hospital two days later. He was buried
in the Military New Cemetery at Poperinghe; _unm._
[Illustration: =Joseph Bond.=]
=BOND, OLIVER HUGH DEVEREUX=, Sapper, No. 2074, 1/1st Kent
Field Coy., R.E., only _s._ of the late David Bond, of Bovey
Tracey, South Devon, by his wife, Harriett (Watford, near Rugby,
Northamptonshire), dau. of Hugh Devereux; _b._ South Kensington,
4 June, 1891; educ. Long Buckby (Rugby) Council School; was a Plumber;
enlisted 22 May, 1915, and went to the Dardanelles 23 Sept. 1915. He
was mortally wounded by a Turkish shell when returning from a day’s
work in the trenches, at Lala Baba, Suvla, 1 Dec. 1915, and died an
hour later. The doctor who attended him said: “He was one of the
bravest lads I have had under my notice during the war,” and his N.C.O.
wrote: “He did not know what fear was.” He was buried in the Reserve
Area, 2nd Mounted Division, south of Chocolate Hill; _unm._
[Illustration: =O. H. D. Bond.=]
=BOND, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3693), S.S. 101259,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BOND, THOMAS MORGAN=, 2nd Lieut., 11th Battn. Royal Irish Rifles,
late Private, No. 9973, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London
Regt., yst. _s._ of Major Thomas Morgan Bond, of 37, St. James’
Square, Holland Park, W., R.A.M.C. (retired), by his wife, Martha
Francis, dau. of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Greenock; _b._ Belfast,
12 Oct. 1896; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex; enlisted in the
London Rifle Brigade on 10 Aug. 1914, five days after the declaration
of war, and at once joined his battn. for training at Crowborough. He
left for France on 4 Nov., served in the trenches through the winter
and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 2 May, 1915,
aged 18 years and 7 months; _unm._ He was gazetted as 2nd Lieut.
to the Royal Irish Rifles, 10 May, to rank as from 10 March, but did
not live to take up his commission.
[Illustration: =Thomas Morgan Bond.=]
=BOND, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7905), S.S. 103590,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BONE, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12056, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BONE, WILLIAM GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 1652, 1/4th Battn.
(Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st _s._ of William
George Bone, of 253, Seward Street Buildings, Goswell Road, E.C., by
his wife, Ada Rose; _b._ St. Luke’s, London, E.C., 29 Aug. 1895;
educ. L.C.C. Central School; enlisted Aug. 1913, and was killed in
action in Flanders, 27 April, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =William G. A. Bone.=]
=BONFIELD, JAMES GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14967, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=BONIFACE, VICTOR GORDON JOHN=, Leading Seaman, 204435, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=BONNAR, WILLIAM McGREGOR=, Trooper, No. 726, 6th Australian Light
Horse, 3rd _s._ of William Bonnar, of 51, Braid Avenue, Edinburgh,
Joint General Manager, New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Ltd.,
by his wife, Mary Strachan Baird, dau. of John Calderwood; _b._
Edinburgh, 31 March, 1890; educ. George Watson’s College there, which
he left in 1909, deciding to take up stock farming. After some training
in Lauderdale he left Scotland for Australia, where he spent four years
on a large sheep and cattle station in New South Wales. Soon after the
outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Dec.
1914, proceeded in March, 1915, with reinforcements of his regt. to
Egypt, and two months later crossed to Gallipoli. He had volunteered
for bombing work, and while engaged in this was severely wounded and
died on the hospital ship Sicilia two days later, 13 June, 1915, being
buried at sea three miles off Gaba Tepe; _unm._
[Illustration: =William McGregor Bonnar.=]
=BOONE, CHARLES FREDERICK DE BOHUN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Essex
Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Col. Frederick Browne Boone,
H.E.I.C.S., by his wife, Mary Frederica, dau. of Major-Gen. Wavell,
F.R.S; _b._ Nagode, India, 16 May, 1870; educ. Haileybury,
and Oriel College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 July, 1892, and
promoted Lieut. 30 Sept. 1896, and Capt. 9 Oct. 1900; was Adjutant of
Volunteers from Sept. 1902 to Nov. 1906, and was afterwards attached
to the staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served with
the relief force in the Chitral campaign (medal with clasp), 1895;
in the South African War, 1900–2, being employed with the mounted
infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal
(May-Oct. 1900 and again Nov. 1901–May 1902), and in Cape Colony, south
of the Orange River (Jan. 1901); present at the actions at Vet River
(5–6 May, 1900), the Zand River, Diamond Hill (11–12 June), Belfast
(26–27 Aug.), Frederickstad (17–25 Oct.), and at Colesberg (1–29 Jan.
1901), etc. (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901],
Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and
with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug.-Sept. 1914;
wounded at the Battle of the Marne, and died in the Lycée Pasteur,
Neuilly-sur-Seine, 23 Sept. 1914; _unm._
[Illustration: =C. F. De Bohun Boone.=]
=BOORER, WALTER JAMES=, Trooper, No. 1839, West Kent Yeomanry,
eldest _s._ of Walter George Boorer, of High Street, Cobham,
Surrey, Printer and Publisher, formerly of Dorking, by his wife,
Rachel, dau. of the late Samuel Butler of Tooting, Surrey; _b._
Dorking, co. Surrey, 15 Jan. 1897; educ. St. Martin’s National School,
Dorking; volunteered and enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, Whit
Monday, 24 May, 1915; left England for the Dardanelles in Sept.,
and was killed in the trenches there, 8 Nov. 1915. He was buried in
his regimental cemetery in Y Ravine at Helles, Gallipoli. His Major
wrote: “Your son and another man were both killed by the same shell,
which came down the trench in which they were in. Death was almost
instantaneous, and he could have suffered no pain. He had not been long
in my squadron, but during the time he was with me he did his duty as a
soldier, and displayed great courage under fire.”
[Illustration: =Walter James Boorer.=]
=BOORMAN, CYRIL ADLINGTON=, Trooper, No. 801, posthumous Lieut.
B. Squadron West Kent Yeomanry (T.F.), only child of Frederick William
Boorman, of Gravesend, Solicitor and Commissioner for Oaths; _b._
Gravesend, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. King’s School, Rochester, where he
held a King’s Scholarship; joined the West Kent Yeomanry in 1913, and
on mobilization volunteered for foreign service with them, but died
at home of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted while in training
at Westbere, near Canterbury, 3 March, 1915. He was gazetted as 2nd
Lieut. R.E. 27 March, to rank as from 1 March (prior to death). Lieut.
the Hon. A. R. Mills wrote: “He joined the troop with me in 1913, and
was under me for two trainings and, of course, since mobilisation, and
was one of my most efficient men--intelligent, keen, and a first-rate
soldier, and I feel sure would have made a most excellent officer.” Mr.
Boorman was in his school cricket eleven for several years and captain
of the football eleven; he also held the record for the long jump
at the school sports, and was a member of the Gravesend Cricket and
Rowing Clubs. He had matriculated at London University and passed the
A.M.I.C.E. examination.
[Illustration: =Cyril Adlington Boorman.=]
=BOOT, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1076, 7th Battn. 2nd Infantry
Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of George Arthur
Boot, of Risley House, 1 Berridge Road East, Nottingham, by his wife,
Mary Kate, dau. of Mark Spink Shaw; _b._ Robin Hood’s Chase,
Nottingham, 29 April, 1893; educ. Grosvenor School. He joined the
Nottingham Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.) as a driver (No. 328), 27 June,
1911, and obtained his discharge 30 Sept. 1913, after which he went
to Australia. On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the 7th Battn.
of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, left with his battn. for the
Dardanelles, was dangerously wounded in the head in action there, 9
May, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Nevasa on the 27th of
that month; _unm._ He was buried at sea. His two brothers are
now (1916) on active service, the elder, Leonard, with the Red Cross
in France; the yr., George Harold, as Lieut. in the 15th Sherwood
Foresters in France.
[Illustration: =Arthur Boot.=]
=BOOTH, GEORGE THOMAS=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24708 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=BOOTH, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10630 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BOOTH, ROLAND HARTLEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24104 (Ports.),
H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Arthur Newsome Booth, of 177, Newsome Road,
Huddersfield, co. York; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=BOOTH, THOMAS=, Private, No. 21338, 4th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Thomas Henry Booth, of 46, Ball
Haye Road, Leek, Leather Merchant, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas
Bamford, of Stafford; _b._ Leek, co. Stafford, 24 Feb. 1877; educ.
Leek Grammar School; was for some time manager of his father’s leather
warehouse; joined the 2nd Manchester Volunteers in 1896, and the 1st
Coy. North Staffordshire Volunteers in 1900, and served with them until
their disbandment on the organisation of the Territorial Force in 1907;
went to Canada in June, 1912, and was in the employ of the Hudson Bay
Co., at Winnipeg; volunteered and joined the Canadian Expeditionary
Force on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent, Oct.
1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France,
31 March, 1915; was shot by a sniper while being relieved from the
trenches at Ploegsteert, 2 Sept., and died of wounds in the Northern
General Hospital, Leicester, on the 30th of that month. Buried in the
family vault at Leek; _unm._
=BOOTH, TOM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9662, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BOOTHAWAY, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 9127, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, only _s._ of Alonzo Boothaway, of Central Avenue, Wigston
Magna, co. Leicester. Hosiery Framework Knitter, by his wife, Maria,
dau. of William Vann; _b._ Wigston Magna, 4 Jan. 1892; educ. Board
School there; enlisted 28 May, 1911, and at the time of the outbreak
of war was serving as a valet at King Edward VII Hospital, Grosvenor
Gardens, W. He went through the retreat from Mons, was wounded on 7
Nov. 1914, but recovered and returned to the trenches on 24 Dec., and
was killed in action near Festubert, 3 Jan. 1915, while being relieved
from the trenches. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery, Rue du
Bois, Bethune (Richebourg Road, Row B, Grave 17); _unm._
[Illustration: =Arthur Boothaway.=]