Victor Edward Bouldstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Victor Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1890; Islington 1b - 395
• Occupation: 1911, 119, Wood Street, London, England; Warehouseman
• Service Number: Abt 1914; Private 6376
• Residence: 1915, 8, Dagmar Terrace, Islington, London, England
• Miltary Service: 1917; 9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles)
• Service Number: Abt 1917; Rifleman 392691

Notes:

World War I Casualty Details
Name: BOULDSTRIDGE, VICTOR EDWARD
Initials: V E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: London Regt (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Unit Text: 1st/9th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 14/04/1917
Service No: 392691
Additional information: Son of Benjamin Bouldstridge, of 4, Strode Rd., South Tottenham, London; husband of Dora Maria Cliff, (formerly Bouldstridge), of 43, Devonshire St., Islington, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 10
Cemetery: ARRAS MEMORIAL

The Arras Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 kms due west of the railway station.
The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the town is built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive planned for April 1917. The Commonwealth section of the FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY was begun in March 1916, behind the French military cemetery established earlier. It continued to be used by field ambulances and fighting units until November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and from two smaller cemeteries in the vicinity. The cemetery contains 2,651 Commonwealth burials of the First World War

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Victor married Dora Maria Butcher on 12 Jun 1915 in Saint Mary's Islington, London, England. Dora (daughter of Henry Butcher and Harriet Mann) was born in 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]