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Surname: RAMSBOTTOM
Forename(s): Basil William
Place of Birth: Colesberg, Cape Colony, South Africa
Service No: ---
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Norfolk Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 12th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion
Division: 31st Division
Age: 22
Date of Death: 1918-08-19
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Plot 1. Row F. Grave 4.
CWGC Cemetery: LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Basil William Ramsbottom was the son of William Henry and Annie Ramsbottom, née Maynard. William was born at Longsight and Annie at Preston, Lancashire.
1901 Bentham, Yorkshire Census: St. Margaret's Vicarage - Basil W. Ramsbottom, aged 5 years, born Cape Colony, son of William H. and Annie Ramsbottom.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Basil William Ramsbottom, 1633, 2/1st Wiltshire Yeomanry & Lt Norfolk Yeomanry T.F. Correspondence: Father - Rev. W.H. Ramsbotton, 35, Sivewright Street, Krugersdorp, Transvaal, S. Africa.
In February 1917, the 1/1st Norfolk Yeomanry (The King's Own Royal Regiment) became the 12th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
Basil is commemorated on Lacock Parish War Memorial and on a memorial plaque in St Cyriac's Church, Lacock, Wiltshire.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
RAMSBOTTOM, Lieutenant B., son of Rev. W.N. Ramsbottom, late vicar of St. Margaret’s, Bentham, killed Aug. 19, 1918.
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Norfolk Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 31st Division
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The High & Low Bentham men who gave their lives
Top row (l-r): Rfn Ernest Knight Newhouse, Pte John Thornber, Reverend Theodore Bayley Hardy, Pte Richard Wilson, Pte Maurice Richard Bolton, Lieut John Barclay Clibborn, Pte William Throup, Pte Richard Wilcock Carr, A/Cpl William Robinson, Pte James Auton, Pte William Savage. Third row (l-r): L/Cpl David Percival Dixon, Pte John Emmott, Pte Francis Richard Townson, Pte John Adamthwaite, Pte Robert Carter, L/Cpl John Hutchinson, Pte Alfred Edward Gunn, Pte Ezra Stephenson, Pte Edwin Rawlinson Smith, Pte Richard Wearing, Lieut Basil William Ramsbotton. Third row (l-r): Spr Robert Clark, Act L/Cpl Thomas Wilcock, Cpl William Carr, Pte Lawrence Lancelot Dowbiggin, Pte Edward Magoolagan, Pte Isaac Rucastle, Pte Henry Taylor, Cpl Edward Ramskill, L/Cpl Edward Walton Briscoe, Pte Joseph Jackson, Gnr Ernest Wilcock. Fourth row (l-r): Capt Donald Morrison, Sgt Arthur Dean Blackburn, Pte James William Bell, Pte Leonard Nelson, L/Cpl John Edward Leeming, L/Cpl Albert Lister, Pte Percy Preston Whitfield, Cpl Tom Harry Smith, Cpl Thomas Walker Sanderson, Sgt William Patrick Tobin, Pte (Signaller) W. Wilkinson.
Courtesy of the artist, David Hartnup
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30 August 1918
Lieutenant B. Ramsbottom, Bentham
News reached Bentham on Monday that Lieutenant B. Ramsbottom, the younger son of the Rev. W. H. Ramsbottom, late vicar of St. Margaret’s, had been killed in action on the 19th inst. Lieut. Ramsbottom was well-known at Bentham, and much sympathy is felt throughout the town for his parents, his elder brother having this year been very badly wounded and had a leg amputated.
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30 August 1918
Bentham Soldier Killed and One Prisoner
News reached Bentham on Monday that Lieut. B. Ramsbottom, the younger son of Rev. W.H. Ramsbottom, late Vicar of St. Margaret’s, had been killed in action on the 19th inst. Young Ramsbottom was well known at Bentham, and much sympathy is felt throughout the town for his parents, his elder brother having this year been very badly wounded and had a leg amputated.
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