ALFRED JOHN BOLTER of Devizes, Wiltshire

Ludgershall Roll of Honour THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

Soissons Memorial France Ludgershall War Memorial

Date of birth 1889 Baptised Birth registered Jun Q 1889 Devizes Reg District Vol 5a Page 97 2 Birthplace Devizes 3

Father Jonah Bolter b.1864 Little Cheverill, Wilts. Died Sept 1910 aged 47 years 3 Mother Jane (nee Merritt) b.1868 Bishops Cannings, Wilts. Marrried Mar Q 1889 Devizes Reg District Vol 5a Page 149 3 Siblings None

Residence in 1901 3 Bell Row, Es tcourt Street, Devizes - age 12, at tending school . Father - Brewer’s Cellarman 3 Residence in 1911 47 Es tcourt Street , Devizes - occupation Nurseryman 3 Alfred living with widowed mother - boarders are Charles James Meadows and Grace Florence Farrin Mother remarried Charles James Meadows in 1914 (22 years her junior)

Wife Florence Grace (nee Farrin ) (known as Grace) Dec Q 1913 Devizes Reg District 2 Children Cynt hia Alice Mary b . 4 June 1915. B aptised St James’ Ludgershall 20 June 1915 5

Rank Lance Corporal 1 Regiment 10 th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 1 Enlisted Marlborough, Wiltshire Service Number 203620 1 Medals Victory / British 4 Date of Death Between 28 - 29 May 1918 age 29 1 Cause Killed in Action 1 Burial / Memorial Soissons Memorial France 1

NOTES Surname spelt BOULTER on Ludgershall War Memorial

1915 Ludgershall Baptism Register: Address Castle Street when daughter baptised in June, occupation Head Gardener 1918 Ludgershall Electoral Roll: Alfred and Grace living in Castle Street. Mother and step-father living in Winchester Street - both buried St James’ churchyard 1918 Wife Grace living in Salisbury Road Ludgershall when Alfred killed in action 1938 Grace buried in St James’ churchyard Ludgershall 28 Sep 1938 age 52 years

Commemorated: Ludgershall War Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial Plaque, Salisbury Cathedral Book of Remembrance

Researched by Patricia Brice 2014

1 = Commonwealth War Graves Commission 2 = Free BMD Birth Index 1837-1915 3 = 1891/1901/1911 Census 4 = WWI Medal Rolls Index Card 1914-1920 5 = Ludgershall Parish Records