Name
Herbert George Boultwood
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/12/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25227
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Herbert
George Boultwood was born in 1897 in Bishop's Stortford to Thomas and Eliza
Boultwood and baptised at Holy Trinity, Bishop's Stortford on 23 July 1897. On
the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 50 Middle Row, Bishop's
Stortford and working as a Domestic Groom.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into Bedfordshire Regiment, 8th Bn. On 3 December 1917 the Battalion were at the Railway Bridge and Talmas Lock, near the Marcoing to Ribecourt Road, on the outskirts of Cambrai, on the Hindenburg Support Line. They were involved in operations to blow up Railway Bridge and Barge Bridge and were subjected to a heavy artillery barrage. The bridges were demolished. His death was presumed on or since 3.12.17 and his body was never recovered.
Additional Information
Incorrectly listed as Broadwood on some records. His mother received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £6 9s 11d. His brother Walter is also named on the Bishop's Stortford War Memorial. He was killed on 28 October 1917 and is named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
