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The Boston (Lincs) War Memorial
Photo : W M Hunt of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The War Memorial for Boston (Lincs), is situated in Wide Bargate.
The memorial is a Cross Surmounting a column on a large square
pedestal and four-stepped base.
The memorial commemorates the residents of Boston who were killed or were
missing in the First World War (348 names) and the Second World War (215 names).
Leading up to the memorial is a path flanked by memorials to services involved
in the Second World War and more recent conflicts. (see photo
below)
The Second World War commemorative panel on the memorial is cast in bronze. The other panels have the names inscribed in stone on the memorial itself.
4 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on this memorial.
Private Bertie Brackenbury. 38437. Depot the Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John J. &
Eliza Brackenbury. Husband of Beatrice Brackenbury of 18 Locomotive Street,
Boston. Died at home 29 December 1917. Aged 35.
Born Boston, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks).
Buried BOSTON CEMETERY.
(Service and Pension records exist. Enlisted 15/1/1916. Wounded, - severe
GSW to left arm, 13 / 3/ 1917, while serving with the 7th Battalion on the
Somme. Discharged 2/8/1917.)
Private Robert Edwin Hopperton, 30536. 2nd Battalion
the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 13 November 1916.
Born Thornton-le-Clay (Yorks), Enlisted Boston.
Buried BERLES-AU-BOIS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION.
(From the pension Ledgers record card, Robert Edwin Hopperton's widow, Susannah
Mabel, lived in Boston.)
2nd Lieutenant William Henry Jones. 1st Battalion the
Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 4th Battalion. Son of William Henry and Sarah
Ann Jones, of 3, Victoria Mansions, Church Rd., Hanwell, London; husband of
Mabel Jane Emily Jones, of 4, Sleaford Rd., Boston, Lincs. Killed 27 May 1918.
Aged 29.
Commemorated on the SOISSONS MEMORIAL.
The following comments are provided by Robert Couson in his Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"William Jones joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on January
15th 1917 and was commissioned into the Yorkshire regiment in September of
that year.
2nd Lt Jones joined the 4th battalion at Touruchem near Watten in November
1917.
The battalion spent the remainder of that year in and out of the line in the
Ypres area.
January and February 1918 found them still in the Ypres Salient but when the
German Spring Offensive opened on March 21st the battalion were undergoing
training at Ignaucourt and were immediately rushed into the line at Hancourt.
There then followed ten days of fighting on the retreat until the end of the
month.
They had little respite after this as on April 8th 2nd Lt Jones and his battalion
were ordered into the Lys battle holding a line west of the river at Sailly
sur Lys.
May of 1918 saw them posted to a “quiet sector” on the Chemin
des Dames ridge where on the 26th a “totally unexpected enemy attack”
resulted in many killed, wounded and missing from the 4th Battalion.
2nd Lt William Henry Jones was killed in this action near to Craonelle on
May 26th 1918 at the age of 29."
Private Allan Edward Grahame Porter. 5/37900. 15th
Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 10th T R Battn. Died at home
24 March 1917. Aged 18.
Born Stickford, Enlisted Boston.
Buried BOSTON CEMETERY.
Names
"A" - "F" (First World War) on the Boston (Lincs) War
Memorial
Photo : W M Hunt of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
Names
"F" - "P" (First World War) on the Boston (Lincs) War
Memorial
Photo : W M Hunt of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
Names
"P" - "W" (First World War) on the Boston (Lincs) War
Memorial
Photo : W M Hunt of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
Second
World War Names on the Boston (Lincs) War Memorial
Photo : W M Hunt of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The War Memorial, - Boston, Lincs
Photo by Steve
Drury
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