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Bethune Town Cemetery, France Bethune Town Cemetery, France
First Name: Ernest George Last Name: BOUGHTON
Date of Death: 15/05/1915 Lived/Born In: Bow
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London17
Memorial Site: 1. Bethnal Green, St Barnabas 2. Bethnal Green Library

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Age-18

 

15 Auckland Road, Bow

Bethune Town Cemetery, France

17th London (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) arrived in France in March 1915 as part of  141 Brigade, 47th Division. On 13th May, 1915 they moved into the front line at Pont Fixe, Givenchy in northern France. The Battalion Diary records that on 14th May, Rifleman Boughton was seriously wounded and that he died the next day.

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