Name
Denis Pierpont Bonham
3rd Sept 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/11/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Honourable Artillery Company
1st Bn.
"D" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
I. A. 68.
France
Headstone Inscription
What is, is best
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, St Peter, Notting Hill, London
Pre War
Denis P Bonham was born 3rd Sept 1895 to Albert Charles Bonham (Auctioneer) and Alice Anne.
By 9th March 1914 as an Auctioneers Clerk (with his Father) he had enlisted with the Honourable Artillery Company and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 21st may 1915. Previously He was listed as Lance Serjeant. He is recorded as passed Musketry 1st Class at Hythe 12th Aug 1915.
He was in France by 22nd Sept 1915 and was wounded at Beaumont Hamel, Somme on 13th Nov 1916.
He was the eldest of 2 brothers and 2 sisters.
Biography
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
