MISSING ENGLISHMAN.
PRESUMPTION OF DEATH. Permission for the presumption of the death of Mr Henry Bott, formerly of .Dudley, Worcestershire, has been granted to. his wife by a Montreal judge. Permission was given largely on the strength of a letter from Mr James W. Herbert, of London, who was formerly in the Royal Air Force. Mr Herbert’s letter stated that he was serving with Air Bott during the war and knew he was killed in India in 1919.
In applying to the course for permission to consider herself a widow, Airs Bott stated that she had heard no news of her husband 1 for 19 years. She stated that she fvas married to Henry Bott at Briefly Hill, near Dudley; on October 17, 1900, and a son, Harry, was barn to them, 'ln 1904 Mr Bott sailed for Canada, and the following year he sent for his wife and child. At the outbreak of war Air Bott returned! to England, saying that he intended to enlist, and since .then Airs Bott had heard nothing of him, although in 1919 she receved information that her husband had been killed in action.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 2
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