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63rd Brigade ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
S.O.S. lines as follows. 0.8.d.59. – 0.8.b.4540. – 0.8.b.39.
Unit War Diary, 24-35 May-17:
MONCHY LE PREUX.
Batteries of 12 guns constantly shelled by 15 and 21 cm batteries. 2 18
pounders and one Howitzer knocked out.
The Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette
Friday June 22nd 1917
MELTON AND THE WAR” – MORE LOCAL SOLDIERS KILLED.
On Saturday afternoon Mrs Boulger, 16, Cottesmore Avenue, Melton
Mowbray, received ofcial notication from the War Ofce of the
death of her son, Pte. William Boulger, killed in action. Deceased
was formerly in the employ of Mr Fred Watchorn, Scalford Road,
afterwards removing to Nottingham, from which city he enlisted.
Mrs Boulger’s youngest son Herbert is in hospital at Boulogne
suffering from gunshot wounds. His younger brother George also
fell in action.