Corp. Alix Bolstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Service Number: 1814; Gunner 1367
• GRO Birth Index: Mar 1896; Atherstone 6d - 456
• Baptism: 15 Mar 1896, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Miltary Service: Between 1914 and 1917; Royal Field Artillery
• Service Number: 1916; Corporal 835378
• Decoration: 1916; Military Medal

Notes:

In the 1901 Census living with Grandmother Sarah Bolstridge nee Latham RG13/2897 Folio 192
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From Birmingham Library Following from Royal Field Artillery Book

Territorial Division
Alex Bolstridge b Ratcliffe E Birmingham 835378 Corp K in A 2/3/17 France and Flanders

(Note Date discrepancy)
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From Commonwealth War Graves Web Site
In Memory of
ALEX BOLSTRIDGE MM
Corporal 835378
" D " Bty. 242nd Bde., Royal Field Artillery
who died on
Friday, 2nd March 1917. Age 21.
Additional Information: Son of Alice Marshall and Police Serjt. William Marshall, Birmingham City Police (stepfather), of 50, Grange Rd., King's Heath, Birmingham.
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Cemetery: LA NEUVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, CORBIE, Somme, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: B. 87.
Location: Corbie is a village 15 kilometers south-west of Albert and approximately 23 kilometers due east of Amiens. La Neuville Communal Cemetery is north of the village.

Historical Information: In April, 1916, No. 21 Casualty Clearing Station came to La Neuville, to remain there throughout the Battles of the Somme, 1916, until March, 1917; and the British Cemetery was opened for it early in July, 1916. Burials from this hospital, and during this period, form the great majority of the British and Dominion burials in either Cemetery, though a few graves were added in each during the fighting on the Somme in 1918. The War Graves in the Communal Cemetery form one long row on the East side of the Cemetery. There are now nearly 200, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.