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the cold and exposure during service in the trenches. This
had originated with him in France in Jan 1917.
He died in Dec 1958, his death being registered in Bourne, Lincs.
BOLLANS James Ernest
Private 14604 Northamptonshire Regiment, 6th Corps
Private 528038 Labour
Corps 436th Agricultural
Company
Ernest was born in late
1882 in Kings Cliffe, and
was the son of George and
Elizabeth Bollans of Park
Street, and the brother of
Charles and George
In 1899 he was apprenticed
to J. Slingsby.
He signed up at
Peterborough on 4th
September 1914 when he
was nearly 32 years old.
On the 26th July 1915 he
was sent to France but was
injured on 9th November
1916 by a gunshot wound
to the back. This was
probably during the latter
days of the Battle of the
Somme when the British
eventually took Beaumont
Hamel. He returned to
England in December of
that year and remained
there for a year. He was
transferred to the Labour
Corps in Feb 1918 and James Bollans in postman uniform
19
had originated with him in France in Jan 1917.
He died in Dec 1958, his death being registered in Bourne, Lincs.
BOLLANS James Ernest
Private 14604 Northamptonshire Regiment, 6th Corps
Private 528038 Labour
Corps 436th Agricultural
Company
Ernest was born in late
1882 in Kings Cliffe, and
was the son of George and
Elizabeth Bollans of Park
Street, and the brother of
Charles and George
In 1899 he was apprenticed
to J. Slingsby.
He signed up at
Peterborough on 4th
September 1914 when he
was nearly 32 years old.
On the 26th July 1915 he
was sent to France but was
injured on 9th November
1916 by a gunshot wound
to the back. This was
probably during the latter
days of the Battle of the
Somme when the British
eventually took Beaumont
Hamel. He returned to
England in December of
that year and remained
there for a year. He was
transferred to the Labour
Corps in Feb 1918 and James Bollans in postman uniform
19
