Dependents Pension Card help please.

[jim1]

Trench 32B

[ALAMO2008]

As always Jim1

Absolutely Brilliant!!!

Cheers

[jim1]

Finding it's exact location is a bit trickier.
I'm wading through the diaries as we speak.

[jim1]

6/KLR diary starts 1916 so no joy there.
However I can tell you B32 is on the Comines canal
South of Ypres at a place called The Bluff.

[jim1]

Not wanting to give up I located the missing part of the diary.
As 6/KLR had just arrived they were attached to various other
Regts. for purposes of trench familiarisation.
On the 7th. March B Coy. KLR were attached to 1/Norfolks
& went into the trenches "S.E. of Ypres".
Although not mentioned this would have been The Bluff.
Your man was 1 of 2 killed on the 8th.

[ALAMO2008]

Brilliant!!!  Jim1

[ALAMO2008]

Going back to Original query on Ottowell/James Bradley

He was born Ottowell
Prison 1899 as Ottowell
Married Laura Richards November 1901 as Ottowell
Baptised Son Waldron in 1904 as Ottowell
But seems to become James 1911 Census which he completes as Head with Wife and Son

[ALAMO2008]

In 1917 his Step Mother confirms he died 30 July 1916 as Ottowell
But she claims Dependents Pension for a Son James killed in action that day
CWGC only have James Death not Ottowell

[jim1]

The 1911 census shows him as head of the family but
he's not head of the household.
They were lodging with the Smith's.
With regard to the name change, these odd sort of names
seem to appeal to the parents but not necessarily the children.