Second Lieutenant Hugh William Bostock
1/6^th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment

Died 12th June 1915 aged 28
Son of Mr J.H. and Mrs C.S. Bostock. Second Lieutenant Bostock lived in Wolverhampton and was commissioned in the 6^th South Staffords in August 1914. He was a platoon officer with “C” Company of the 1/6^th South Staffords. Hugh Bostock was found dead at the entrance of a dug-out by his batman after a bombardment and was buried at St Quentin Cabaret at 6 o’clock on the evening of 12^th June. As a young boy, Hugh Bostock was one of the children of The Chapels Royal and had sung with the choir on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

He is buried in St Quentin Cabaret, Plot I Row E Grave 14

Information supplied by Andrew Thornton

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