Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Emerson Bousfield, 123rd Outram's Rifles.
He was the son of Edmund Collingwood Bousfield and Louisa Bousfield.
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the South Wales Borderers on 21 Sep 1889. Promoted to Lieutenant on 13 Jan 1892. Transferred to the Indian Army 19 Jul 1893. Promoted to Captain on 21 Sep 1900, to Major on 21 Sep 1907 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 21 Sep 1915
[London Gazette: 5 Nov 1915].
He initially served in the 15th Madras Infantry, then the 26th Madras Infantry (by 1902), joined the 66th Punjabis in 1904 and then the 123rd Outram's Rifles. At the start of WW1, 123rd Outram's Rifles were stationed in Manipur, NE India. The Regiment remained in India for the first 2 years of the war. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Provost Marshal in India and volunteered to serve in France and was attached to the 1st Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). The Battalion was part of the Sirhind Indian Infantry Brigade, attached to 3rd (Lahore) Division. They fought in the Battle of Givenchy 18-22 Dec 1914, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle 10-13 Mar 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres in Apr 1915, the Battle of Festubert in May 1915 and in Sep 1915 the Battle of Loos. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Second in Command and was shot through the lung by a stray bullet during the Battle of Loos on 25 Sep 1915, and died within a quarter of an hour.
He is buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue,
Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276099/), on the Bonchurch War Memorial at St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251738/), on the St Boniface Church pulpit memorial (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276096/), on the St Boniface Church Roll of Honour and on the Indian Army WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
He was the son of Edmund Collingwood Bousfield and Louisa Bousfield.
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the South Wales Borderers on 21 Sep 1889. Promoted to Lieutenant on 13 Jan 1892. Transferred to the Indian Army 19 Jul 1893. Promoted to Captain on 21 Sep 1900, to Major on 21 Sep 1907 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 21 Sep 1915
[London Gazette: 5 Nov 1915].
He initially served in the 15th Madras Infantry, then the 26th Madras Infantry (by 1902), joined the 66th Punjabis in 1904 and then the 123rd Outram's Rifles. At the start of WW1, 123rd Outram's Rifles were stationed in Manipur, NE India. The Regiment remained in India for the first 2 years of the war. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Provost Marshal in India and volunteered to serve in France and was attached to the 1st Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). The Battalion was part of the Sirhind Indian Infantry Brigade, attached to 3rd (Lahore) Division. They fought in the Battle of Givenchy 18-22 Dec 1914, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle 10-13 Mar 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres in Apr 1915, the Battle of Festubert in May 1915 and in Sep 1915 the Battle of Loos. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Second in Command and was shot through the lung by a stray bullet during the Battle of Loos on 25 Sep 1915, and died within a quarter of an hour.
He is buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue,
Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276099/), on the Bonchurch War Memorial at St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251738/), on the St Boniface Church pulpit memorial (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276096/), on the St Boniface Church Roll of Honour and on the Indian Army WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Emerson Bousfield, 123rd Outram's Rifles.
He was the son of Edmund Collingwood Bousfield and Louisa Bousfield.
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the South Wales Borderers on 21 Sep 1889. Promoted to Lieutenant on 13 Jan 1892. Transferred to the Indian Army 19 Jul 1893. Promoted to Captain on 21 Sep 1900, to Major on 21 Sep 1907 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 21 Sep 1915
[London Gazette: 5 Nov 1915].
He initially served in the 15th Madras Infantry, then the 26th Madras Infantry (by 1902), joined the 66th Punjabis in 1904 and then the 123rd Outram's Rifles. At the start of WW1, 123rd Outram's Rifles were stationed in Manipur, NE India. The Regiment remained in India for the first 2 years of the war. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Provost Marshal in India and volunteered to serve in France and was attached to the 1st Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). The Battalion was part of the Sirhind Indian Infantry Brigade, attached to 3rd (Lahore) Division. They fought in the Battle of Givenchy 18-22 Dec 1914, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle 10-13 Mar 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres in Apr 1915, the Battle of Festubert in May 1915 and in Sep 1915 the Battle of Loos. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Second in Command and was shot through the lung by a stray bullet during the Battle of Loos on 25 Sep 1915, and died within a quarter of an hour.
He is buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue,
Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276099/), on the Bonchurch War Memorial at St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251738/), on the St Boniface Church pulpit memorial (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276096/), on the St Boniface Church Roll of Honour and on the Indian Army WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
He was the son of Edmund Collingwood Bousfield and Louisa Bousfield.
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the South Wales Borderers on 21 Sep 1889. Promoted to Lieutenant on 13 Jan 1892. Transferred to the Indian Army 19 Jul 1893. Promoted to Captain on 21 Sep 1900, to Major on 21 Sep 1907 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 21 Sep 1915
[London Gazette: 5 Nov 1915].
He initially served in the 15th Madras Infantry, then the 26th Madras Infantry (by 1902), joined the 66th Punjabis in 1904 and then the 123rd Outram's Rifles. At the start of WW1, 123rd Outram's Rifles were stationed in Manipur, NE India. The Regiment remained in India for the first 2 years of the war. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Provost Marshal in India and volunteered to serve in France and was attached to the 1st Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). The Battalion was part of the Sirhind Indian Infantry Brigade, attached to 3rd (Lahore) Division. They fought in the Battle of Givenchy 18-22 Dec 1914, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle 10-13 Mar 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres in Apr 1915, the Battle of Festubert in May 1915 and in Sep 1915 the Battle of Loos. Lieutenant Colonel Bousfield was acting as Second in Command and was shot through the lung by a stray bullet during the Battle of Loos on 25 Sep 1915, and died within a quarter of an hour.
He is buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue,
Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276099/), on the Bonchurch War Memorial at St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251738/), on the St Boniface Church pulpit memorial (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/276096/), on the St Boniface Church Roll of Honour and on the Indian Army WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
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