Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookeaman, 237607, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BOULOGNE, JORDAN=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BOULT, THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 1639, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry; a native of Seaham Harbour, Durham; went to Canada from West Hartlepool about 1910; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined Princess Patricia's Light Infantry; was severely wounded at Ypres, where he had a leg shot off, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 15 May, 1915. Three of his brothers are on service, two in the Army and one in the Navy. =BOULTON, JAMES FORSTER=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Monmouth, yr. _s._ of Alexander Claude Forster Boulton, of 28, Ranelagh Avenue, Barnes, J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, formerly M.P., North Hunts, by his wife, Florence Marion, dau. of Henry Harmes; _b._ Putney, 3 April, 1899; educ. Willington School, Putney, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth on the outbreak of war, as a Naval Cadet, and was advanced to the rank of Midshipman only a few days before he was lost in the sinking of H.M.S. Monmouth, while in action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. Entering Willington School as its youngest boy in May, 1905, he left it as head boy at Christmas, 1911, after being head of Form V and prize-winner the previous July. Having entered Osborne Royal Naval College in Jan. 1912, he was second of his year at Easter and first of his year at Midsummer. He was top in bookwork in the Christmas term, and third in the final order for the year. He played for the Soccer XI in various "forward" positions. In the following year he won the fly-weight boxing, and passed out second of the 70 Cadets of his "year." In Jan., 1914, he entered Dartmouth College, where he was also first in bookwork in his first term. His aggregate position at both colleges was generally second--a highly creditable record when one remembers the number of Cadets. [Illustration: =James Forster Boulton.=] =BOURGES, JOHN (JEAN)=, Private, No. 67214, 25th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Gabriel Bourges, of Cancale, Ille et Vilaine, France; _b._ Cancale, 3 May, 1890; educ. there, and left France on a French fishing vessel in 1904 for Canada, and on account of ill-treatment remained there and worked as a sailor, and never returned to France until he came with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he at once volunteered, crossed to France in Sept., and was killed in action 27 Dec. 1915, by the bursting of a shell in his trench; _unm._ He was buried in the cemetery of the 25th Battn. by the Rev. Father Doyen, of the 5th Brigade. [Illustration: =John (Jean) Bourges.=] =BOURKE, BERTRAM WALTER=, Capt., 5th, attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only surviving _s._ of the late Major William Henry Bourke, of Heathfield, Ballina, co. Mayo, Connaught Rangers, by his wife, Sarah Louisa, dau. of James John Young; _b._ 9 Dec. 1882; educ. in Saint Servant, France; served with the Royal Engineers (Militia) from which he exchanged into the 5th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1904; passed the school of instruction for employment with the Regular Forces, and obtained the rank of Capt. 24 Feb. 1912. He left for the Front on 2 May, 1915, was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and was killed in action while gallantly leading his men near Ypres, just a week later, 9 May, 1915. Capt. Bourke _m._ at Stapletown, Carlow, 19 April, 1913, Eileen, dau. of George Neville Usher, of Carlow, and had two daus.: Vivienne Neville, _b._ 29 Jan. 1914; and Patricia Bertram, _b._ 4 Nov. 1915. =BOURKE, EUSTACE GEORGE WALTER=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, eldest _s._ of Walter Longley Bourke, of Monycrower, Maidenhead, late Major, Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry, by his wife, Ethel Kathleen Jane, only dau. of the late Capt. John W... Freeman, of Rockfield, co. Hereford, 16th Regt., and grandson of Rev. the Hon. George Wingfield Bourke, M.A., [4th _s._ of Robert, 5th Earl of Mayo]; _b._ 24 June, 1888; educ. at Mr. Arnold's School at Wixenford, Uppingham and Sandhurst, and received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, 6 Feb. 1909, becoming Lieut. 20 Aug. 1912, and Capt. 18 May, 1915. For some time he was A.D.C. to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor-General of South Africa, but was unable to proceed with Lord Buxton to take up the appointment on account of the outbreak of the war. He went out to the Front on 12 Aug. 1914, being in command of the machine-gun section of his battn. He was with his battn. during the retreat from Mons and on the Aisne. Near Ypres, on 26 Oct., he received a bullet wound in the foot, and was sent home. Subsequently he was appointed Adjutant of the 6th (Reserve) battn. of his regt., which appointment he might have retained until the end of the war but for his own determination to go again to the Front. Early in May he was transferred as Adjutant to the 9th Battn., and on the 20th of that month he again proceeded to the Front. "20 May. Just off," he wrote. "We shall be in France before you get this. I can't understand myself. I expected when the time came I should be sorry to go. However, I slept like a top last night, no worries, so far no fears. Everything seems to me to be quite all in the day's work. It's odd when you think of it." He was promoted Capt. on 18 May, though not gazetted until a few weeks later. Capt. Bourke was killed in the first action in which the 9th battn. was engaged, and within half a mile of the spot where he was wounded in October. The battn. was ordered forward and marched up a railway cutting in full view of a German observation balloon. Within a few minutes they were being heavily shelled, and one burst close to Capt. Bourke and his servant (Rifleman S. Chater), who were together; the latter was blown into the air, but neither was injured. Capt. Bourke turned back to see if his man was hurt, and they then made for some small dug-outs in the side of the cutting. Before they could take cover, however, another shell fell close to them, and Capt. Bourke was badly hit. Chater again escaped unhurt, though he afterwards suffered so severely from shock that he had to be invalided home. Chater ran off under heavy fire to fetch a doctor, and succeeded in bringing one back in a very few minutes, but only to find that Capt. Bourke was already dead. Chater remained with him for several hours in the hope of being able to bring his body in, but this was impossible. It was, however, recovered the next day, and he was buried in a cemetery close to Ypres, where a wooden cross, put up by his Colonel and some of his brother officers, marks his grave. Col. Chaplin (himself killed shortly afterwards), in writing to Capt. Bourke's father, said: "I cannot express to you how |