Waterloo Rugby Club - Roll of Honour still has casualties to be ID'd

[davidbohl]

I had a step through Waterloo's Roll of Honour https://firwoodwaterloorfc.rfu.club/information/club-history

Their are still 3 to be traced:-

#4 E. Bousefield

#20 I.C Jack

#33 D. Rowatt

 

I can offer up 2/Lt David Rowatt RFA, his dad D.C had a tobacco importers in Bootle

 

Edgar Bousfield 2/Lt KLR ? (don't think he died)

 

I.C.Jack may by J.C.Jack (Royal Scots) or H.C (Royal Flying Corps) ?

 

It would be nice to complete their set.

Thanks

Dave

 

 

 

 

 

[sadbrewer]

1 hour ago, davidbohl said:

I had a step through Waterloo's Roll of Honour https://firwoodwaterloorfc.rfu.club/information/club-history

Their are still 3 to be traced:-

#4 E. Bousefield

#20 I.C Jack

#33 D. Rowatt

 

I can offer up 2/Lt David Rowatt RFA, his dad D.C had a tobacco importers in Bootle

 

Edgar Bousfield 2/Lt KLR ? (don't think he died)

 

I.C.Jack may by J.C.Jack (Royal Scots) or H.C (Royal Flying Corps) ?

 

It would be nice to complete their set.

Thanks

Dave

 

 

 

 

 

Edgar looks to be the only E Bousfield in Liverpool in the 1911 census. Born 1883 ish. in either Hull or Pateley Bridge depending on which record you look at.

  A traveller for a timber company living at 72 Keble Road, Bootle.

  By 1922 he was at 11 Curzon Ave, New Brighton.

 In 1939 he was at 9 Glen Park Rd, Wallasey.

He died in 1944 in Chapel en Le Frith.

 

D Rowatt looks like David Crawford Rowatt, KIA Somme 1st July 1916.

Edited 24 August , 2019 by sadbrewer

[davidbohl]

It was a typo

MajorJACK, JAMES CHARLES

Died 31/05/1918

Aged 41

150th Bde. 
Royal Field Artillery

D S O, M C and Bar, Mentioned in Despatches

Son of the late Alexander Jack, of Liverpool. Indian Civil Service, 1899 (Director of Land Records, Bengal, 1912). On special leave from I.C.S. for duration of war.

[charlie962]

I think that is the Major Jack mentioned in PJ Campbell's Ebb and Flow, story of 150 Bde RFA.

 

Charlie

 

edit- whom he much admired if I remember correctly?

Edited 24 August , 2019 by charlie962

[sadbrewer]

22 minutes ago, charlie962 said:

I think that is the Major Jack mentioned in PJ Campbell's Ebb and Flow, story of 150 Bde RFA.

 

Charlie

 

edit- whom he much admired if I remember correctly?

 

This one perhaps?

 

A link to Ancestry for more.

 

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60454/de_ruvignys_vol_5-de_ruv_vol5_pg_0093/7544?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/155122858/person/102047112059/facts/citation/502064795848/edit/record

 

 

 

Edited 24 August , 2019 by sadbrewer

[charlie962]

2 hours ago, davidbohl said:

Edgar Bousfield 2/Lt KLR ? (don't think he died)

But he was reported wounded in the Casualty List of 25/9/18 (with an entry to France date of 29/8/18 he didn't have to wait long)

Edited 24 August , 2019 by charlie962

[daggers]

Major Jack is included in the roll of honour within Liverpool Town Hall’s Hall of Remembrance.

D

[Mark1959]

 

What about Eustace Bousfield. Worcester Yeomanry killed at Katia 23/4/1916. De Ruvigny write up Here has him at Merchant Taylor’s School Great Crosby and then later as working in an insurance office in Liverpool. Later went abroad to NZ and Malay States. To Egypt 30/4/15. All his records seem to be under Bonsfield

De R has a pic. Born 1885. Father member of Liverpool Stock Exchage.

Edit

http://www.merseysiderollofhonour.co.uk/get2.php?cwgc=1644479 already identify him as the man on WRFC memorial. 

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1644479/bonsfield,-eustace/

Edited 24 August , 2019 by Mark1959

[davidbohl]

Well done everybody, a big error on CWGC

Dave

BONSFIELD Private 2314

EUSTACE

Sunday, April 23, 1916 JERUSALEM MEMORIALPanels 5 and 6.

VIEW RECORDQueen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry)United Kingdom

 

The photgraphic project is off the pace too https://www.twgpp.org/photograph/view/4360512

Edited 24 August , 2019 by davidbohl

[PRC]

I don't know if the Probate entries add anything for those men.

 

David Rowatts' home address was 18 Gambia Terrace, Liverpool. On the 1911 Census of England and Wales he was recorded as a Clerk to a Tobacco Merchant, (his father was a Tobacco Merchant). Aged 20 and single he lived with his parents and 7 of his 10 siblings in a household at 23 Esplanade, Waterloo, Lancashire which required 5 live in servants. He married Saidee Harvey-Gibson in the Liverpool District in Q3 of 1913. It looks like the couple had a son David L, whose birth was registered in the Omskirk District in Q1 of 1915.

 

James Charles Jack was temporarily of the South-Western Hotel, Southampton.

 

Eustace Bousfield was of  Claremont Villa, Leamington - his affairs were dealt with by the Public Trustee. On the 1901 Census of England and Wales there is a 15 year old Eustace Bousfield, born Bromborough, Cheshire, who was recorded as a Boarding School Student at Bedford County School, Ampthill Road, Kempston, Bedfordshire. No obvious match on the 1911 Census. The birth of a Eustace Bousfield was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Wirral District of Cheshire in Q1 of 1886. His mothers' maiden name was Tetley. Most likely marriage of his parents was registered in the West Derby District of Lancashire in Q2 of 1881 when a Henry Michael Bousfield married an Annie Wilkinson Tetley. The death of a Henry Michael Bousfield, aged 34, was recorded in the Wirral District in Q1 of 1890. His entry in the 1890 Probate Calendar records that he was a Stocks and Share Broker and that the will was proved by his widow Annie Wilkinson Bousfield of the Mulberries, Great Crosby, near Liverpool.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Bousfield&yearOfDeath=1890&page=5#calendar

An Annie Wilkinson Bousfield married in 1908 to an Ernest William O'Connor in the Stratford on Avon District of Warwickshire. She would pass away in a Nursing Home in Westmoreland in 1951.

 

Hope some of that helps,

Peter

[davidbohl]

I'll forward all the info gathered to Pete Cureton at Waterloo, great work again GWF.

What shall I tell him about the steps to get the gwgc entry changed ?

Dave

 

Reply from 'loo:-

Thank you so much for this.

I would love to be able to complete our records.  I found it very moving to add details to the names - I even found one who lived in a house now owned by a friend of ours!

What was even more poignant however was those who gave their lives but about whom I could find no information.

-- 

Pete Cureton

Edited 25 August , 2019 by davidbohl
Reply from Waterloo

[daggers]

Small point about Rowett’s address.  Despite the spelling in the probate entry, it should be GambIER Terrace, not Gambia.

 

D

[charlie962]

22 hours ago, charlie962 said:

whom he much admired if I remember correctly? 

 I did- Major Jack is thinly disguised as 'Major John' in Campbell's memoir Ebb and Flow of Battle- a highly recommended read for life of a junior officer in an RFA Bty during 1918.

 Earlier in same book he makes ref to Major Jack's prewar Indian Civil Service career so definitely the right man.

 

 

[Mark1959]

12 hours ago, davidbohl said:

What shall I tell him about the steps to get the gwgc entry changed ?

I believe CWGC take the view that they reflect the enlistment name. If the army thought his name was Bonsfield they will not change it. They may agree to reflect the real family name on his on line record.

Bousfield in is on The Worcester Cathedral Memorial to the Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry).

He lived in Evesham for a while but is not on any of my lists of local memorials.

Edited 25 August , 2019 by Mark1959

[davidbohl]

Thanks Mark, it looks like they did have it correct to start off with.

 

 

 

[Guest]

PRC has all the right info about Eustace Bousfield. Brother of my grandfather, Reginald Michael Bousfield. The Mulberries is now the girls school at Merchant Taylors in Great Crosby. Not married, no children. Annie W Tetley was Great niece of Joshua Tetley, brewer.

[Guest]

Forgot to say, Eustace Bousfield was also brother to rear Admiral Henry Hugh Bousfield.