Private John Alfred Bootheway, 22762
- Batt - 18
- Unit - Lancashire Fusiliers
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1896
- Died - 02/11/1917
- Age - 21
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Alfred Bootheway a farm bailiff, born 1871 in Gumley, Leics., and his wife Mary Ann, born 1874 in Barrington, Cambs. John Alfred was born in 1896 in Gumley, Leics., he had one sibling, a brother Albert Horace, born 1899 in Foxton, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at The Grange, Foxton, Leics. In April 1911 John was employed working on the family farm and was residing in the family home at Foxton, Leics., together with his father, a cow man, his mother and siblings, Alfred and Elsie Mary Mabel, born 1905 in Foxton, Leics.
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - Xiv D 11, Dozinghem Military Cemetery
- Unit - Lancashire Fusiliers
- Former Unit - Royal Field Artillery
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Dozinghem Mil. Cem., Westvleteren, Poperinghe, West Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Born - Gumley, Leics
- Enlisted - Market Harborough, Leics
- Memorial - ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, FOXTON, LEICS
