{"id":91765,"date":"2025-08-24T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:48:07","slug":"blue-plaque-commemorates-army-veteran-and-boxer-sydney-bolesworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91765\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue plaque commemorates army veteran and boxer Sydney Bolesworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blue plaque has been placed in Leicestershire to commemorate World War One veteran and boxer Sydney Bolesworth.<\/p>\n

The plaque was put on display in Holliers Walk Druid car park in Mr Bolesworth’s birthplace of Hinckley.<\/p>\n

He was born in 1889 and attended St Peter’s School, where he first started boxing, before joining the army in 1905, when he was posted to India.<\/p>\n

Mr Bolesworth returned home in 1912 and soon earned a top reputation in the Midlands boxing scene, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council said, but he rejoined the army in 1914 and was killed in action three years later.<\/p>\n

According to the council, he regularly challenged colleagues to box him in the ring at the hosiery factory where he worked, which is now Concordia Theatre.<\/p>\n

His boxing career took off while serving, and he won prestigious titles along the way, such as the All India Boxing Championships on two occasions, the council added.<\/p>\n

Mr Bolesworth died at Ypres, Belgium, on 1 October 1917, and his body was never recovered.<\/p>\n

His name is on the Tyne Cot memorial<\/a> in Belgium.<\/p>\n

Councillor Paul Williams, heritage champion at the borough council, said: “The blue plaque scheme is a wonderful way for us to commemorate those who have made Hinckley and Bosworth proud in years gone by.<\/p>\n

“It’s great that we have been able to honour Sydney Bolesworth in this way.<\/p>\n

“Make sure to look out for the plaque next time you’re passing by, as well as the others around the town.<\/p>\n

“My thanks go to local historian Greg Drozdz for nominating Sydney for a blue plaque.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blue plaque has been placed in Leicestershire to commemorate World War One veteran and boxer Sydney Bolesworth.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-91765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}