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War
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The War Memorial for Old Bolingbroke (Lincs)
Photo courtesy of Diedeldum of the Lost
Ancestors website
The Old Bolingbroke War Memorial is a stone cross on a three-stepped octagonal
base. The memorial is located on a small green at the junction of Horncastle
Hill and Hagnaby Road.
7 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War,
and 2 in the Second World War.
Photos of the cross and commemorations on the memorial are by courtesy of Diedeldum of the Lost Ancestors website. The website also includes transcriptions of the names on the memorial.
One soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.
Private David Shaw Johnson. 38444. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 18/40761 Sherwood Foresters. Son of Fred and Emma Johnson, of Old
Bolingbroke, Spilsby, Lincs. Killed 5 February 1917. Aged 35.
Born Old Bolingbroke (Lincs), Enlisted Spilsby.
Buried GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE.
The Dedication on the Old Bolingbroke War Memorial, with First and Second
World War Commemorations.
Photo courtesy of Diedeldum of the Lost
Ancestors website
Private Johnson's Name on the Old Bolingbroke War Memorial
Photo courtesy of Diedeldum of the Lost
Ancestors website
The
War Memorial for Old Bolingbroke (Lincs)
Photo © Copyright Richard
Croft and licensed for reuse under this Creative
Commons Licence.
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