WW1 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 5702 F W BOLTON 2/4TH OXFORDSHIRE & BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 1916
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WW1 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 5702 F W BOLTON 2/4TH OXFORDSHIRE & BUCKINGHAMSHIR
Offered is a Memorial Plaque named to Frederick Charles Bolton. Comes with copies of M.I.C., medal roll, Commonwealth War Graves extract (2), copy photograph of grave 1911 census, pension form, ward diary Nov & Dec 1916 extracts and soldier effects extract.
Frederick Charles Bolton was born in 1884 in Oxford, Oxfordshire. The 1911 census records him as living in Oxford, employed as a domestic gardener. He was serving with ‘B’ Company 2/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry when he died of wounds on 13/12/1916 and is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen.
The 2/4th Battalion was formed at Oxford in September 1914 as a second line unit. It landed in France 24/5/1916 as part of the 184th Brigade, 61st Division. It is probable that Bolton only served with the 2/4th as the medal roll only records this unit. He is not entitled to the 14/15 Star which would tie in with the battalion landing in France 24/5/1916.
As a result of the Divisions poor showing during the attack at Fromelles on 19/7/1916, it was not used again other than for holding trench lines until 1917.
The war diary for November 1916 records one wounded other ranks on 26/11/1916 at Ovillers. 29/11/1916, one killed and two wounded other ranks (1 accidentally) at Mouquet and finally on 10/12/1916 when out of the line at Hedauville, one other ranks was wounded (no explanation). As Bolton died of wounds 13/12/1916, the exact date and circumstances of his wounding remain unclear. Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever.
His brother Harold Bolton (service # 201230) was killed in action with the 2/4th Ox and Bucks 22/8/1917.
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