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Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette
Friday May 10th 1918
MELTON AND THE WAR.” – MISSING MELTONIANS:
Mrs. Boulger, 16 Cottesmore Avenue, Melton Mowbray, has been
ofcially informed that her son, Pte. Thomas H. Boulger, Notts and
Derby Regiment, was posted as missing after an engagement in
the eld between March 21st and 23rd. He was the youngest of
four brothers who all enlisted, and before joining up two years ago
was in the employ of Mr. Edward Perkins, J.P., wholesale grocer,
Market Place. His eldest brother Gunner John William Boulger,
R.F.A., was killed on May 25th, 1917, and his next brother, Corpl.
George Boulger, Leicester’s met with his death in September, 1915.
His only surviving brother Driver James Boulger R.F.A., has been
out at the front since August 1914.