Lieutenant Leslie Cyril William Bauchope

Service No: 4434?
Regiment: Royal Air Force
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Died: 21 May 1918
Age: 21
 
Memorial Location: Heaton Cemetery
Position:1B. 12 (C.E.) 49.
Date Buried:
Home Address:
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Notes: Son of John William and Louisa Bauchope, of “Ilminster”, 47, Rydal Road, Bolton, Lancashire, and formerly of Katanga, Wigan Road, Bolton, Lancashire. An old boy of Bolton Grammar School (1903-1913). Enlisted September 1914. Formerly Private, 3rd Bn., Royal Fusiliers. Wounded in France in July 1916. Commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps 26/08/1917, becoming a flying instructor, and transferred to Royal Air Force on formation 01/04/1918. Killed in an accident at a Royal Air Force aerodrome.
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Living at 50 Gilnow Road Bolton, Bolton at 1911 census.
Born at Ilminster, Somerset. See house name in Rydal Rd.
Local newspaper entries
Bolton Journal and Guardian entries: 24/12/1914 04/08/1916 24/05/1918
Bolton Journal and Guardian references: 7c 5d 6c/f*