Bourne soldiers who died at the Battle of the Somme

Seven soldiers from Bourne died during the Battle of the Somme and their names are recorded on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, the war memorial to 72,195 British and South African servicemen who died with no known grave and is situated near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. This has become a place of pilgrimage for descendants of those who died and historians writing about the conflict and a visitors' centre opened there in 2004.

1st July 1916 - 11059 Private George SHERWIN, 2nd Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment, aged 25, son of Mr and Mrs Sherwin of West Street, Bourne.

3rd July 1916 - 11946 Lance Corporal Ralph PATTISON, 1st Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment, aged 32, son of Mr and Mrs Pattison of Bedehouse Bank. Bourne.

2nd October 1916 - 2569 Private Frederick John Norman SMITH, 1st/23rd Battalion London Regiment.

7th October 1916 - SP/2547 Private Harry PEARCE, 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, aged 32, son of Mrand Mrs J T Pearce, 45 North Road, Bourne.

23rd October 1916 – 27268 Private William LUNN, 1st Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, son of Mr and Mrs E Lunn of Woodview, Bourne.

23rd October 1916 – 27162 Private James Henry SMITH, 1st Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, son of Mr and Mrs J H Smith of Eastgate, Bourne.

1st November 1916 – 31282 Private Arthur LANE, 7th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, aged 41, who lived at 26 North Street, Bourne (assumed he was married).

NOTE: The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and erected between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest Commonwealth Memorial to the missing in the world. It was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) in the presence of Albert Lebrun, President of France, on 1 August 1932 and the unveiling ceremony was attended by Lutyens. The photograph above is reproduced from Wikipedia.