[Illustration: =Harry Hargreaves Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, JAMES FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1909), late Ch. I/12380, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BOLTON, JOHN=, Lieut., 5th Battn. East Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of Heightside, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., etc. (see preceding notice); _b._ Accrington, co. Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1889; educ. Tonbridge School, and Manchester University. On leaving the latter, where he took the three years’ mining engineering course, he was engaged at the Accrington and Rossendale Collieries, of which his father was Managing Director, and after a short time was placed in charge of the commercial department at Accrington, and was soon recognised as a capable and energetic business man. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the East Lancashires, 19 June, 1913, and volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war. His regt. went out to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and while there he took a special course in scouting under Gurkha officers, and was made Scout Master of the battn. He received his Lieutenant’s commission 6 May, 1915, and sailed for the Dardanelles the same day. He was killed by a shell which fell in the front line trenches, in the bombardment before the advance on Krithia, 4 June. After his death his father received from General Douglas, commanding 42nd Division, the following card of congratulation which had been sent to him, but before it reached him he had been killed: “The General Officer commanding the 42nd (East Lancs.) Division congratulates Lieut. J. Bolton, 1/5 Battn. East Lancs. Regt. on the gallant action performed by him on 12 May, 1915. Signed C. O. W. Douglas, M. Genl. Commd., 42nd Division.” The action referred to was fetching ammunition from the base under fire of the enemy, when the battn. ran short in the trenches. He was _unm._ and was buried at Ghurka Bluff, Gallipoli.
[Illustration: =John Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, JOHN=, Private, No. 2575, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; _b._ co. Lancaster; enlisted 1 April, 1899; served in South Africa, 9 Aug. 1900 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medals with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Braisne, 8 Oct. following, of wounds received in action; _m._
=BOLTON, JOSEPH CROOK=, Private, No. 25689, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of (--) Bolton; _b._ Clitheroe, 3 June, 1883; educ. Royal Grammar School there; went to Canada in Oct. 1912, and was a painter; on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted, came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front, 10 Feb. 1915, and died 23 April, 1915, of wounds received in the great Canadian Charge at St. Julien. He was buried in Vlamertinghe Churchyard, Belgium. He _m._ 20 May, 1907, Emma (52, Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, Lancs), dau. of (--) Rushton, and had two children: Frank, _b._ 12 May, 1910; and Marjorie Esther, _b._ 4 Nov. 1908.
[Illustration: =Joseph Crook Bolton.=]
=BOLTON, WILFRED=, Private, No. 260, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of (--) Bolton, of Normanton, Yorkshire; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 18 May, 1915.
=BOLTON, WILFRID=, Sub-Lieut. R.N.V.R., Collingwood Battn., R.N.D., 2nd _s._ of Henry Lushington Bolton, of The Sanctuary, Westminster, and The Gables, Crowborough Beacon, Sussex, Solicitor, by his wife, Chloe, dau. of James Richard Gordon; _b._ Porchester Terrace, London, 26 May, 1897; educ. at The Grange, Crowborough; Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Osborne and Dartmouth. On leaving Dartmouth in April, 1914, he was rejected for the Navy on account of a slight defect in sight. On the outbreak of war joined the R.N.V.R., and was killed in Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915.
=BOLTON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 15252, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Kemmerl, 29 May, 1915; _m._
=BON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2399, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct., 1914.
=BOND, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 10752, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st _s._ of Joseph Bond, of 44, Brough Street, Derby, Warder, Derby Prison, by his wife, Kate, dau. of the late Thomas Gordon, of Derby; _b._ Derby, 1 March, 1895; educ. St. Joseph’s R.C. School there; was for some time a Porter at the Great Northern Railway Station at Derby, and enlisted 1 June, 1914. He was sent to France 9 Oct. following, was severely wounded in the fighting around Ypres, 19 Nov. 1914, and died at No. 4 Clearing Hospital two days later. He was buried in the Military New Cemetery at Poperinghe; _unm._
[Illustration: =Joseph Bond.=]
=BOND, OLIVER HUGH DEVEREUX=, Sapper, No. 2074, 1/1st Kent Field Coy., R.E., only _s._ of the late David Bond, of Bovey Tracey, South Devon, by his wife, Harriett (Watford, near Rugby, Northamptonshire), dau. of Hugh Devereux; _b._ South Kensington, 4 June, 1891; educ. Long Buckby (Rugby) Council School; was a Plumber; enlisted 22 May, 1915, and went to the Dardanelles 23 Sept. 1915. He was mortally wounded by a Turkish shell when returning from a day’s work in the trenches, at Lala Baba, Suvla, 1 Dec. 1915, and died an hour later. The doctor who attended him said: “He was one of the bravest lads I have had under my notice during the war,” and his N.C.O. wrote: “He did not know what fear was.” He was buried in the Reserve Area, 2nd Mounted Division, south of Chocolate Hill; _unm._
[Illustration: =O. H. D. Bond.=]
=BOND, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3693), S.S. 101259, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BOND, THOMAS MORGAN=, 2nd Lieut., 11th Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, late Private, No. 9973, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., yst. _s._ of Major Thomas Morgan Bond, of 37, St. James’ Square, Holland Park, W., R.A.M.C. (retired), by his wife, Martha Francis, dau. of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Greenock; _b._ Belfast, 12 Oct. 1896; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex; enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade on 10 Aug. 1914, five days after the declaration of war, and at once joined his battn. for training at Crowborough. He left for France on 4 Nov., served in the trenches through the winter and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 2 May, 1915, aged 18 years and 7 months; _unm._ He was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Irish Rifles, 10 May, to rank as from 10 March, but did not live to take up his commission.
[Illustration: =Thomas Morgan Bond.=]
=BOND, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7905), S.S. 103590, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BONE, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12056, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BONE, WILLIAM GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 1652, 1/4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st _s._ of William George Bone, of 253, Seward Street Buildings, Goswell Road, E.C., by his wife, Ada Rose; _b._ St. Luke’s, London, E.C., 29 Aug. 1895; educ. L.C.C. Central School; enlisted Aug. 1913, and was killed in action in Flanders, 27 April, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =William G. A. Bone.=]
=BONFIELD, JAMES GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14967, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=BONIFACE, VICTOR GORDON JOHN=, Leading Seaman, 204435, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BONNAR, WILLIAM McGREGOR=, Trooper, No. 726, 6th Australian Light Horse, 3rd _s._ of William Bonnar, of 51, Braid Avenue, Edinburgh, Joint General Manager, New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Ltd., by his wife, Mary Strachan Baird, dau. of John Calderwood; _b._ Edinburgh, 31 March, 1890; educ. George Watson’s College there, which he left in 1909, deciding to take up stock farming. After some training in Lauderdale he left Scotland for Australia, where he spent four years on a large sheep and cattle station in New South Wales. Soon after the outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914, proceeded in March, 1915, with reinforcements of his regt. to Egypt, and two months later crossed to Gallipoli. He had volunteered for bombing work, and while engaged in this was severely wounded and died on the hospital ship Sicilia two days later, 13 June, 1915, being buried at sea three miles off Gaba Tepe; _unm._
[Illustration: =William McGregor Bonnar.=]
=BOONE, CHARLES FREDERICK DE BOHUN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Essex Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Col. Frederick Browne Boone, H.E.I.C.S., by his wife, Mary Frederica, dau. of Major-Gen. Wavell, F.R.S; _b._ Nagode, India, 16 May, 1870; educ. Haileybury, and Oriel College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 July, 1892, and promoted Lieut. 30 Sept. 1896, and Capt. 9 Oct. 1900; was Adjutant of Volunteers from Sept. 1902 to Nov. 1906, and was afterwards attached to the staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served with the relief force in the Chitral campaign (medal with clasp), 1895; in the South African War, 1900–2, being employed with the mounted infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal (May-Oct. 1900 and again Nov. 1901–May 1902), and in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River (Jan. 1901); present at the actions at Vet River (5–6 May, 1900), the Zand River, Diamond Hill (11–12 June), Belfast (26–27 Aug.), Frederickstad (17–25 Oct.), and at Colesberg (1–29 Jan. 1901), etc. (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug.-Sept. 1914; wounded at the Battle of the Marne, and died in the Lycée Pasteur, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 23 Sept. 1914; _unm._