Walter Edward Bouldstridge

1885 - 1918  (33 years)

• Name	Walter Edward Bouldstridge
  Birth	1885	Canterbury, Kent, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Walter Edward Bolstridge
  GRO Birth Index	Sep 1885
  	Canterbury 2a - 793
  Occupation	1901
  	Jeweller Gold
  Occupation	1911
  	Packer (Drapery)
  Miltary Service	Between 1914 and 1916  [2]
  	Army Service Corps 2nd Ammunition Park
  Service Number	Between 1914 and 1916
  	Private CMT - 2969
  Service Number	1918
  	Chelsea Pensioner (59678 - D)
  Burial	1918	Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
  Death	27 Apr 1918	Birmingham, Warwickshire, England   [3]
  	See Notes regarding discharge
  GRO Death Index	Jun 1918
  	Birmingham 6d - 246 Age 32
  Notes	Casualty Details WW1 Name: BOULDSTRIDGE, WALTER EDWARD Initials: W E Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment: Army Service Corps Unit Text: M.T. Age: 32 Date of Death: 27/04/1918 Service No: CMT/2969 Additional information: Son of Eugenia Bouldstridge, of 24, Regent Place, Birmingham, and the late Henry Benjamin Bouldstridge. Born at Canterbury. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: B12. 426. Cemetery: BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY The First World War saw four important hospitals - besides many smaller - posted at Birmingham: the 1st Southern General (3,500 beds) was in the university and other buildings, with a section at Stourbridge; the 2nd/1st Southern General (1,800 beds) in the Dudley Road Infirmary and in billets; the 1st Birmingham War Hospital (1,000 beds) at Rubery Hill Asylum and the 2nd Birmingham War Hospital (900 beds) at Hollymoor Asylum. Military hospitals were at Birmingham again during the Second World War, including No 7 Canadian Hospital at Marston Green. Birmingham and Coventry were among the chief manufacturing areas producing materials for the war effort and were subjected to many devastating air raids during the Blitz of 1940-41. BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY contains 498 First World War burials, most of them in a war graves plot in Section B10. The names of those buried in the plot, or in graves elsewhere in the cemetery which could not be individually marked, are inscribed on a Screen Wall. Second World War burials number 125, most of them scattered throughout the cemetery, although there is a small plot in Section 2E. BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL CREMATORIUM stands within the cemetery. In the chapel, there is a bronze plaque commemorating 48 servicemen of the Second World War whose remains were cremated there. ********************************************************************** ********************************** WW1 Soldiers Records Abstract No 2989 Army Service Corps Walter Edward Bouldstridge Enlisted 8/6/1914 Bristol Aged 26 346 Days Discharged 28 1 1916 being no longer physically fit for service (Effects of Wounds) Discharged as Totally Disabled TB (Chelsea Pensioner Number 59678/D Address 24, Regent Place, Birmingham No Children at Discharge ********************************************************************** ****************
  Person ID	I1692	bolstridge
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Henry Benjamin Bouldstridge,   b. 1852, Westminster, London, England d. 1921, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eugenia Elizabeth Baker,   b. 1854, London, England d. 1941, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1880	Canterbury, : Registration District, England
  GRO Index	Jun 1880
  	Canterbury 2a - 1117
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Florence E Jones,   b. 1886   d. 1915, Birmingham, : Registration District, England (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	1911	Birmingham, : Registration District, England   [4]
  GRO Index	Jun 1911
  	Birmingham 6d - 199
  Family ID	F1399	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Lilian Griffiths,   b. Abt 1890
  Marriage	1917	Birmingham, : Registration District, England   [5]
  GRO Index	Sep 1917
  	Birmingham 6d - 454 Spouse Griffiths
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F1155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1885 - Canterbury, Kent, England Marriage - 1911 - Birmingham, : Registration District, England Marriage - 1917 - Birmingham, : Registration District, England Burial - 1918 - Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Death - 27 Apr 1918 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S42] Public Records Office, 1901 UK Census, (Name: PRO Find My Past and Ancestry.co.uk;), See Notes Father, RG 13. [S645] War Office WO series, WWI Campaign Medals, (Name: PRO;), 1914-1920 WO 372/2. Medal card of Bouldstridge, Walter Edward Corps: Army Service Corps 2nd Ammunition Park Regiment No: CMT/2969 Rank: Private [S144] Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Casualty Details First - Second World War, (Name: Debt of Honour Register;), See Notes. [S52] General Records Office, An Unrequested GRO Index, (Name: On Line at : www.findmypast.com;). [S52] General Records Office, An Unrequested GRO Index, (Name: On Line at : www.findmypast.com;). Spouse Griffiths