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Bulteau, L J A



Lieutenant Louis Joseph Auguste Bulteau

73rd Battalion, Senegalese Rifles, attd. French Colonial Infantry
16/06/1916

 

Born on 6th April 1862 at Maziëres-en-Gatine, Deux Sèvres, Pitou-en-Charentes. Father of Sergeant Roger Bulteau

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.


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