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Surname: BOYNTON
Forename(s): John Henry
Place of Birth: West Hartlepool, Co. Durham
Service No: 242272
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 2/6th Battalion
Division: 61st (2/South Midland) Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1918-03-26
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: I. J. 25.
CWGC Cemetery: ST. SOUPLET BRITISH CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
John Henry Boynton was the son of Henry and Sarah Boynton, née Shepherd. Henry was born at Pocklington and Sarah at Tadcaster, Yorkshire.
1881 West Hartlepool, Co. Durham Census: 63, Stranton - John H. Boynton, aged 4 years, born West Hartlepool, son of Henary B. and Sarah Boynton.
1891 West Hartlepool, Co. Durham Census: 16, Bailey Street - John H. Boynton, aged 15 years, born West Hartlepool, son of Henry and Sarah Boynton.
1901 Norton, Co. Durham Census: 9, Rayworth Place - Jno Henry Boynton, aged 23 years, born West Hartlepool, Durham. [John, a domestic gardener, was boarding with William and Mary Jane Flemming.]
John was married to Violet Ellen Gornall in 1908. Violet was the sister of Private John Edgar Thomas Gornall (3644) (q.v.).
1911 Warwick, Warwickshire Census: 49, Guy Street - John Henry Boynton, aged 34 years, born West Hartlepool, Durham, husband of Violet Ellen Boynton.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte John H. Boynton, 242272, R. War. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte John H. Boynton, 242272, 10th Bn R. War. R.; 242272, 2/6th Bn R. War. R.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte John Henry Boynton, 242272, 2/6 Bn R. Wark. Date and Place of Death: Officially accepted as on 25.3.18 nr St Quentin. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Violet E. £12 13s.11d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for John. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Violet Ellen, born 7.12.84. Address 1. 70, Cliff Hill, Warwick. Address 2. Bedford [?] Bridge, Southam. Address 3. Binswood End, Harbury. Children: Henry Gornall, born 14.9.09. Ellen Gornall, born 30.10.11. Theodosia Gornall, born 9.7.16.
John was originally buried by the Germans in St. Martin's Military Cemetery, St. Quentin. When his body was exhumed for reburial a paper was found on which was written: "Englander Boynton". A name would sometimes be put into a bottle and then placed on the grave.
John and Violet’s son, Trooper Henry Boynton, 547976, The Warwickshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, died 15 June 1944. He is buried in Orvieto War Cemetery, Italy. Violet’s son and Henry’s half-brother, Sapper Charles Geoffrey Boynton, 14202086, 73rd Coy Royal Engineers, born 11 June 1923, died 6 June 1944. He is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Both are commemorated on the Harbury War Memorial.
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:
BOYNTON, John H., died of wounds March 25, 1918.
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Private John Henry BOYNTON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 61st (2/South Midland) Division
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10 May 1918
GISBURNE
Private J. Boynton, of the Royal Warwicks, for many years gardener to Lord Ribblesdale, is officially reported missing and believed wounded since the 21st of March. His wife is a daughter of Mr. Gornal, an old estate worker, who has already lost a son in France. Mrs. Ellis, of the Old Vicarage, who has also lost a son in the war, received news last week of the death in action of her nephew, Private Harold Wright, son of Mr. Harry Wright, of Accrington, a boy who was very well known in the village. - Regimental-Sergeant-Major Fox is home on leave from his training camp at Longmoor, and Gunner Charles Waller is home from Gosport on short leave.
26 July 1918
GISBURNE - Death from Wounds
Mrs. John H. Boynton, daughter of Mr. J. Gornall, of Gisburn, has received news of her husband's death from an abdominal wound on March 25th. Private Boynton, who formerly was gardener to Lord Ribblesdale, was reported missing some weeks ago, and the account of his death comes from Captain Hodgson-Jones, R.A.M.C., who is now himself in a prisoner-of-war camp in Austria, and who cared for Private Boynton until his death. He is buried with many of his comrades near St. Quentin. Much sympathy is felt for his wife and three young children.
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10 May 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Gisburn Casualties
Pte. J. Boynton, of the Royal Warwicks, and of Gisburn, for many years gardener to Lord Ribblesdale, is officially reported missing and believed wounded since March 21st. His wife is a daughter of Mr. Gornall, an old estate worker, who had already lost a son in France. Mrs. Ellis, of the Old Vicarage, who has also lost a son in the war, received news last week of the death in action of her nephew, Pte. Harold Wright, son of Mr. Harry Wright, of Accrington, a boy who was very well known in the village.
26 July 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Gisburn Casualties
Mrs. John H. Boynton. daughter of Mr. J. Gosnall, of Gisburn, has received news of her husband's death from an abdominal wound on March 25th. Pte. Boynton, who formerly was gardener to Lord Ribblesdale, was reported missing some week ago, and the account of his death comes from Chaplain Hodgson-Jones, R.A.M.C., who is now himself in a prisoner of war camp in Austria, and who cared for Pte. Boynton from his being brought in until his death. He is buried with many of his comrades near St. Quentin. Much sympathy is felt for his wife and three young children.
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Ey up,
Just researching John Henry Boynton who is on the St Nicholas Church and Warwick Main war memorial. He lived in Warwick in 1911 and his widow stayed there until after the war ended.
We have him as Gardener for Sir Michael Lakin in Warwick and his addresses in Warwick (1911 Census and Army Pension Cards) as 70 Hill Street and 49 Guy Street.
Most of our other details match yours – it would be good to find a baptism though – providing there was one.
War diary shows that on 20 March 1918 two companies (A & C) carried out a raid on enemy lines in front of St. Quintin and captured 12 prisoners and a machine gun. 1 man was killed and 4 others (including John) were wounded. He died of his wounds on 26 March. His body was originally buried by German forces at St. Martin’s Military Cemetery, St. Quentin and it is assumed he died in a German Hosp or Field Ambulance.
Ian,
Kilnsey