Name
Phillip Boswell
1875
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/12/1918
43
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
4/7164
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION
IV. B. 12.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wareside Village Memorial, Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Philip Boswell was born in 1875 at Stansted, Herts to John and Mercy Boswell. (N.B. he is listed as being born variously at Wareside, Stansted and Stansted Abbots). On the 1881 Census the family were living at Babbs Green, near Ware. By the 1891 Census his father had died and his mother was living on parish relief with 7 children at Babbs Green and Philip, age 15, was a farm labourer. He married Elizabeth Emily Markwell in 1904 at Bishop's Stortford. On the 1911 Census was living with his wife (but no children) at 28 Upton Fields, Bishop's Stortford and working as Brewers Bottle Washer.
Wartime Service
He initially enlisted with the Bedfordshire Regiment, no. 4/7164 and later
transferred to 822nd Area Employment Coy. Labour Corps under no. 449586.
Additional Information
Died at 1 Aus CCS France. Widow Elizabeth received a war gratuity of £26 and pay owing of £37 3s 3d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox