Benjamin Bolstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Benjamin Robinson
• GRO Birth Index: Dec 1885; Mansfield 7b - 69
• Occupation: Between 1901 and 1911; Coal Miner
• Residence: 1911, 22, Powell Street, Castleford, Yorkshire, England; Boarding with Father in Law Thomas Dunwell
• Miltary Service: 1917; 4th Batallion Grenadier Guards
• Service Number: 1917; Guardsman 21025

Notes:

1911 Census 22 Powell Street Castleford
DUNWELL, Thomas Head Married M 72 1839 Labourer Formerly General Labourer Yorks Kippax
DUNWELL, Harriet Wife Married 49 years F 69 1842 Yorks Aberford

BOLSTRIDGE, Benjamin Boarder Married M 25 1886 Coal Miner Hewer Derby S Normanton

BOLSTRIDGE, Emily Boarder Married 2 years F 24 1887 Yorks Castleford
BOLSTRIDGE, Stanley Boarder M 2 1909 Yorks Castleford
DUNWELL, Annie Visitor Single F 19 1892 Pottery Works Hand Yorks Castleford
DUNWELL, Elenor Visitor F 13 1898 Derby Alfreton
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First World War Casualty Details

Name: BOLSTRIDGE
Initials: B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Grenadier Guards
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Date of Death: 21/07/1917
Service No: 21025
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. G. 9.
Cemetery:Cemetery: BLEUET FARM CEMETERY
pp The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Bleuet Farm was used as a dressing station during 1917 Allied offensive on this front. The cemetery was begun in a corner of the farm and was in use from June to December 1917, though a few of the burials are of later date. Two graves were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice from isolated positions close by. There are now 442 First World War burials in the cemetery and nine from the Second World War, all dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

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Buried:
The cemetery is located to the north west of the town of Ieper near a village called Elverdinge, this is on the N8 road between Ieper and Veurne, 3 kilometres from Ieper. Driving into the village from Ieper go to the traffic lights and turn right, this street is called Steenstraat, and after 50 metres follow the street to the right, called Boezingsestraat. The cemetery is 500 metres along this street on the left hand side.

Benjamin married Emily Dunwell in 1908 in Pontefract, : Registration District, England. Emily (daughter of Thomas Dunwell and Harriet UNKNOWN) was born in 1886 in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Sep 1908; Pontefract 9c - 152
• GRO Death Index: Apr 1989; Pontefract 5 - 1195

Stanley married Ivy Ibberson in 1933 in Pontefract, : Registration District, England. Ivy was born on 19 Jan 1907; died in 1982 in Pontefract, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1913; Pontefract 9c - 314
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1975; Pontefract 5 - 1278

Leslie married Eveline Jolliff in 1937 in Pontefract, : Registration District, England. Eveline was born on 10 Jun 1915; died in Jan 1985 in Pontefract, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]