Boole, Percival Stanley

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Percival Stanley Boole

201331, Private, 13th The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Died of wounds, 27 April 1918, aged 29
Buried at Étaples Military Cemetery, France

CWGC registered (Son of John and Elizabeth Boole, of The Green, Rawmarsh, Rotherham. Native of Llandudno)

Percival Stanley Boole, known as Stanley, was born in Nottingham in 1889. He was the son of a school teacher, John Boole and his wife Elizabeth Boole (née Eardley). He had an elder brother named Frank. The 1891 census records the family living at Gawcott in Buckinghamshire. Ten years later, the family lived at Fenny Stratford (now Milton Keynes) and had been joined by Douglas, Reginald and Fanny Kathleen. John Boole took up a position in Llandudno but sadly his wife died in 1910. The census of the following year records John, Douglas, Reginald and Kathleen in lodgings at 10 Taliesin Street, Llandudno. Both Frank and Stanley were printing compositors lodging in Llandudno, the latter at Grimsby Villa, Taliesin Street.

Unfortunately, Stanley’s service record no longer exists. He enlisted at Liverpool at a date unknown. His first known battalion was the 2/5th Battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), a unit of the Territorial Force. His regimental number is recorded as 201331 but this was issued in 1917 and would have replaced an earlier number. The 2/5th KLR formed in Liverpool in September 1914 when the 5th split into first and second line battalions. Though the second line battalions of the Territorial Force were originally formed for home service, replacing the first line battalions which went overseas, the Military Service Act of 1916 deemed that second line battalions could be sent abroad. The 2/5th KLR disembarked in France on 13 February 1917 and fought on the Western Front until it disbanded on 1 February 1918, its soldiers being used to reinforce other battalions. Whether or not Stanley was transferred on that date or before that date is unknown but his posting was to the 13th (Service) Battalion which had formed in October 1914 and disembarked in France in September 1915.

At a date unknown, Percival Stanley Boole was wounded in action. He died of these wounds on 27 April 1918 and was buried at Étaples Military Cemetery. Étaples was a major base about 20 miles south of Boulogne and the location of several hospitals.

Known memorials:

  • Llandudno Roll of Honour
  • Llandudno War Memorial
  • Memorial Chapel, Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno
  • Llanrhos Parish War Memorial, All Saints’ Church, Deganwy

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