Born on 6th April 1862 at Maziëres-en-Gatine,
Deux Sèvres, Pitou-en-Charentes. Father of Sergeant
Roger Bulteau
& of Miss Andrée 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.
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. [The Star.]
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.
French
records
