Driver 7906387 Alec Bold

Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately Alec and two other members of the household are redacted. Father John Bold born 18/11/1895 a Colliery Hewer, mother Dorothy A (Adelaide) Bold born 02/10/1893 an Unpaid Domestic and brother Stanley Bold born 18/10/1921 a General Labourer at Brickworks are living at 58 Beacon Road, Billinge.

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[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url]

Driver 7906387 79th Assault Squadron Royal Tank Regiment Alec was born on the 13th of August 1919 the eldest child of John and Adeline Dorothy Bold of 16 Newton Road, Billinge, and was baptised on the 7th of September 1919 at St. Aidan's C.E. Church. The family later moved to 58 Beacon Road and Alec attended St. Aidan's School. He played the piano and was taught to play St. Aidan's organ by the organist Albert Mather. Alec worked at Evans Store in Garswood and then at the Maypole Stores, Pemberton before being called up and joining the Royal Tank Regiment. Alec became a tank driving instructor on Salisbury Plain and later took part in the D-Day landing. He was driving a tank when it hit a land mine which killed him on Wednesday the 8th of November 1944. He was 25 years old and is buried in the Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands, grave 15.B.9. His name is recorded on St. Aidan's C.E. Church Memorial. Sources:- Brother; Sister; St. Helens Local History Library, Index of soldiers killed in the Second World War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Aidan's Church Registers, St. Aidan's Parish Magazine, December 1944. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url] [pic]imgs/WW2_headstones/7906387AlecBold.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Driver Alec Bold at Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery Photograph Courtesy of [url=http://www.warcemeteries.nl/index.html]Marcel Boven[/url][/caption]