Luke Bolstridge

1882 - 1914  (32 years)

• Name	Luke Bolstridge
  Birth	1882	Birmingham, Warwickshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Luke Cherry
  Miltary Service	1914
  	2nd Battalion South Staffs Regiment
  Service Number	1914
  	Private 6891
  Burial	Nov 1914	Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne, France
  Death	16 Nov 1914	Boulogne, France   [2]
  Notes	In Memory of L BOLSTRIDGE Private 6891 2nd Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment who died on Monday, 16th November 1914. Commemorative Information Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: III. A. 46. Location: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery is one of the Town Cemeteries and stands on high ground on the eastern side of Boulogne, on the road to St. Omer. Historical Information: Boulogne, was one of the three Base ports most extensively used by the British Armies on the Western Front, throughout the 1914-18 War. It was closed and cleared on the 27th August, 1914, in consequence of the retreat of the Allies; but it was opened again in October, and from that month to the end of the war Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief Hospital areas. The dead from the Hospitals at Boulogne itself were buried, until June (in a few cases July), 1918, in the Cimetiere de L'Est, one of the Town Cemeteries. The British graves form a long, narrow strip along the right hand edge of the cemetery; they are arranged in seven plots, numbered I to IV and VII to IX. (The number V was given to the German Plot and VI to the Portuguese.) In the spring of 1918 it was found that the ground available in the Eastern Cemetery was being filled up, in spite of repeated extensions to the South, and the site of the new cemetery at Terlincthun was chosen. During the 1939-45 War Boulogne was, for a short time in May 1940, again the site of British hospitals and of Rear General Head Quarters. Taken by the Germans at the end of that month, it remained in their hands until re-captured by the Canadians on September 22nd 1944. There are now nearly 6,000, 1914-18 and 200, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 8,040 square metres.
  Person ID	I1176	bolstridge
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023

  
  

  Mother	Clara Cherry,   b. 1859, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England d. 5 Aug 1927, Birmingham South, : Registration District, England (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud Maddox,   b. Abt 1890
  Marriage	1910	Walsall, : Registration District, England   [2]
  GRO Index	Dec 1910
  	Walsall 6b - 1311
  Children	+ 1. John Thomas Bolstridge,   b. 25 Jun 1911, King's Norton, : Registration District, England d. 9 Nov 1988, Stafford, : Registration District, England (Age 77 years)  [natural] + 2. Living
  Family ID	F1471	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1882 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Marriage - 1910 - Walsall, : Registration District, England Child - John Thomas Bolstridge - 25 Jun 1911 - King's Norton, : Registration District, England Burial - Nov 1914 - Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne, France Death - 16 Nov 1914 - Boulogne, France  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Public Records Office, 1891 Census, (Name: Via Ancestry.co.uk;), See Notes Father, RG 12. [S631] Prof. N A Dudley (1988), The Bolstridges alias Boulstridges of Bedworth, (Name: From a tree deposited at the S.O.G. London;), 78672. Date of Import: 8 Jan 2000