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NAME: Bollom, Hebberd John (J H Bollam on memorial)
RANK: Private
UNIT: Canadian Infantry
BATTALION ETC: 1st Battalion attached 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company
REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 437621
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 21st June 1917 by enemy shrapnel while road making
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Kandahar Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
OTHER INFORMATION: Age 26. Born 11th June 1890 at Woolston, Hants, UK. Attested 19th August 1915. Son of Charles H. and Rosa Kate Bollom, of Glenreagh, Alberta (CWGC). In his will (1916) gives address of mother as 12 Oak Road, Woolston, Southampton, England, and in soldiers papers (1916) as Eugenie Villia, Oak Road, Woolston, Southampton, England. Another card in soldiers papers show mother at address as above but father at CWGC address. Native of Southampton, England.