Raymond Milner Bourne
View Raymond Milner on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
79583
Rank:
Private
Service:
Durham Light Infantry
Origin:
Date of birth:
03 February 1889
Date of death:
12 October 1918
Age at Death:
19
Known information
Private Raymond Milner Bourne of 29th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, was the son of Julia Marie Bourne of Manton, where he was born on 3 February 1889. He was a gardener before enlisting on 7 August 1917. He went out to France on 25 June 1918, and was killed in action less than four months later on 12 October. Raymond is buried at Kandahar Farm Cemetery, six and three-quarter miles south west of Ypres, grave II.J.8. He is remembered on Manton's war memorial in the churchyard and on a family headstone in Manton cemetery.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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