Luke Bolstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Luke Cherry
• Miltary Service: 1914; 2nd Battalion South Staffs Regiment
• Service Number: 1914; Private 6891

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.

Luke married Maud Maddox in 1910 in Walsall, : Registration District, England. Maud was born about 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Sep 1911; King's Norton 6c - 693
• GRO Death Index: Nov 1988; Stafford 30 - 1133

Family/Spouse: Majorie Egan. Majorie was born about 1913. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Kathleen Winkles in 1935 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Kathleen was born on 4 Oct 1909; died on 18 Oct 1983 in Cannock Chase, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Mar 1938; Birmingham 6d - 17
• GRO Death Index: Sep 2000; Birmingham

Gordon married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]