Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book=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._ [Illustration: =C. F. De Bohun Boone.=] =BOORER, WALTER JAMES=, Trooper, No. 1839, West Kent Yeomanry, eldest _s._ of Walter George Boorer, of High Street, Cobham, Surrey, Printer and Publisher, formerly of Dorking, by his wife, Rachel, dau. of the late Samuel Butler of Tooting, Surrey; _b._ Dorking, co. Surrey, 15 Jan. 1897; educ. St. Martin's National School, Dorking; volunteered and enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; left England for the Dardanelles in Sept., and was killed in the trenches there, 8 Nov. 1915. He was buried in his regimental cemetery in Y Ravine at Helles, Gallipoli. His Major wrote: "Your son and another man were both killed by the same shell, which came down the trench in which they were in. Death was almost instantaneous, and he could have suffered no pain. He had not been long in my squadron, but during the time he was with me he did his duty as a soldier, and displayed great courage under fire." [Illustration: =Walter James Boorer.=] =BOORMAN, CYRIL ADLINGTON=, Trooper, No. 801, posthumous Lieut. B. Squadron West Kent Yeomanry (T.F.), only child of Frederick William Boorman, of Gravesend, Solicitor and Commissioner for Oaths; _b._ Gravesend, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. King's School, Rochester, where he held a King's Scholarship; joined the West Kent Yeomanry in 1913, and on mobilization volunteered for foreign service with them, but died at home of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted while in training at Westbere, near Canterbury, 3 March, 1915. He was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. R.E. 27 March, to rank as from 1 March (prior to death). Lieut. the Hon. A. R. Mills wrote: "He joined the troop with me in 1913, and was under me for two trainings and, of course, since mobilisation, and was one of my most efficient men--intelligent, keen, and a first-rate soldier, and I feel sure would have made a most excellent officer." Mr |