BOLT, Benjamin Fremantle
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Attached Royal Navy |
| Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 31 January 1886 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Naval Officer |
| Died: | England, 1951, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Fremantle Scots Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Captain, Officer, Attached Royal Navy |
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Son of Hannah and Edward BOLT.
After being educated at Fremantle, Ben took to a life on the ocean and soon went to England where he served in the Royal Navy. He was a Sub Lieutenant in November 1914 and was later promoted to Captain.
He served as a Captain in the Royal Navy on HMS Rowan, HMS St. George and at the HMS Maidstone Submarine Depot.
During the war his address was c/- St. John's Road, Eat Ham, London.
Ben served with teh Merchant Marines after the war. He was demobilised from the Royal Navy on 30th January 1919.
In 1919 Ben married Mabel Healy in London and they lived for a time in NSW before returning to England.
Ben held the rank of Master Mariner on several steam ships over the next 20 years.
In World War 2 while Master on a ship he was captured by the Japanese and spent the war as a Prisoner of War in Camp Stanley Hong Kong.
After the war he returned to England and died in 1951.
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