Edward Bonvalot

Second Lieutenant Edward St. Laurent Bonvalot was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 5 July 1891, in Kensington, the eldest son of French landowner Antoine St. Laurent and Emily Bonvalot (née Ames), of Tunbridge Wells. Bonvalot studied at Eton and Trinity College. He intended to pursue a career in diplomacy, but the outbreak of war precluded its realisation. Instead, Bonvalot obtained a commission in October 1914, in the 2nd Coldstream Guards.Ancestry.com. UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Bonvalot went to France in March 1915. He died on 9 October, at No. 6 Field Ambulance, of wounds received the day before in a German counter-attack during the Battle of Loos.
He is buried in Bethune War Cemetery. A recreational ground in the village of Downton is named in his memory.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Bonvalot, Edward St. Laurent, cwgc.org. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
Category:1891 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of French descent
Category:Buried in France
Category:Second Lieutenants