Early Life :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Died, aged 54 years, at Haiphong of cholera acquired whilst on active service.
Known as "Auguste", he was the proprietor for many years of the wine cellars "Caves de Bordeaux" in St Peter Port. Despite being in his fifties when war broke out he volunteered and was sent abroad to train colonial troops and travel with them back to Europe.

[The Star.] "We regret to record the death of Lieutenant a. Bulteau, 7th French Colonial Infantry Regiment, and proprietor of the Caves de Bordeaux, Upper Mansell Street. which occurred on June 16 at Hai-Phong, Tonking, China, from abcess of the liver.

Deceased was born at Pamplies, Vendée, France, in 1862. He served in the French Colonial Infantry and became Adjutant of the Regiment. He fought in two campaigns, Senegal and Tonking, and received the Colonial Medal. As a reservist he became Sous-Lieutenant and was afterwards promoted to Lieutenant. He established himself in business here as a wine and spirit merchant in Upper Mansell Street about 15 years ago.

At the beginning of the war he offered his services which were eventually accepted. He was sent to Rochfort. He served in the trenches, but owing to ill-health was discharged. Then he went to Martinique to fetch black troops for France. Later he went with these troops to Fréjus-Var and from there to Tonking where he died at the Military Hospital.

He leaves a widow, a daughter and one son, who is an officer in the Flying Corps at the Front. One of M. Bulteau's sons, Sergeant Roger Jules Louis Paul Bulteau, was killed in France in the first months of the war."

W Stonebridge, in 'Trinity Square and some of the surroundings in 1879,' Quarterly Rev. Guern. Soc., Spring, 1968, has this to say about him: "M. Feillerat was preceded at Les Caves de Bordeaux by M. Bulteau, who, though over age, volunteered for service in the French army to avenge the death in action of one of his sons."

Masonic :

Lodge records at the United Grand Lodge of England show that he was "Killed in Action April 1916"

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley