Name
Neville Stanley Bostock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/04/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
"B" Battery, 162nd Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
V. B. 6.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 6 Apr 1888 in The Causeway, Horsham son of Edward Ingram Bostock, J.P. and Sarah Southey (Baker) Bostock. Educated at Haileybury College 1901. Went to Canada and joined the Royal North West Mounted Police but returned to Britain on the outbreak of war. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Obtained a commission in 1916 and served with the Expeditionary Force in France. He was killed by a shell in action near Arras.
Additional Information
Brother of 2nd Lieutenant Edward Lyon Bostock who was killed on 5 Apr 1917 and is also commemorated on these memorials and of Captain Archibald Thomas Bostock who was killed on 30 Sep 1915.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
