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VC932   Stanley Henry Parry Boughey

Name   Stanley Henry Parry Boughey   No.     POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   932   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1/4th Battalion

Later   Royal Highland Fusiliers

Now   2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers, Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won    Second Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career  Second Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Danube Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Place Of Death   Near Ramleh, Palestine

Buried/Location Ashes   Gaza War Cemetery, 1 mile north east of Gaza town, 40 miles south-east of Tel Aviv, Israel

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot XX, Row A, Grave 1

Gazetted   13 February 1918

VC Presented   2 March 1918, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Gaza War Cemetery, 1 mile north east of Gaza town, 40 miles south-east of Tel Aviv, Israel

P  Named on War Memorial, Blackpool, Lancashire

Named on War Memorial, St George's United Reform Church, Plymouth Road, Blackpool, Lancashire

Stanley Boughey Place, off Crewe Road, Nantwich, Cheshire

By The Way…

Before the war, Stanley Boughey was a member of the St Johns Ambulance Brigade. When war was declared, he went to France and served in Royal Army Medical Corps

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BORN   9 April 1896

DIED   4 December 1917    AGE   21

VC Won   1 December 1917   AGE   21

Place VC Won   El Burf, Palestine, now Israel

War/Campaign   First World War 1917