Company Quartermaster Serjeant WR/310642 Henry Valentine Boyes
Regiment/Unit: Royal Engineers - Inland Waterways and Docks
Theatre of War: Home (15th Can Hosp, Taplow)
Age at death: 27
Date of death: 8th of November 1918
Born: Liverpool, Lancs
Resided: Thatto Heath, St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Eccleston Christchurch - O.G.98.
BMD details:
Marriage: 2nd Qtr 1915 - Henry V Boyes to Elsie Cooke at Prescot, Lancashire. Vol 8b - Page 1520.
Family details:
Husband of Elsie Boyes, of 42, Nutgrove Rd., St. Helens. Widow Elsie is grantee.
Census details:
1891 - 1 month old Henry V is living at 18 Lightwood Street, West Derby, Liverpool with parents Henry (38), Lavenia H (34) and five siblings: Arthur H (12), Ernest S (10), Edward A (9), Edith G (7), Mildred (1). Henry Valentine's mother, Lavinia, died in 1896. 1901 - Shows 10 years old Henry V living at 16 Station Houses, St Helens with his father Henry (48), stepmother Rovena (32) and four siblings: Ernest (20), Mildred (11), Jean W (8) and Ada A (1). 1911 - Sees 19 years old 'Clerk (Brick Works)' Henry V living at 5 Hayes Street, Thatto Heath, St Helens with father Henry (58), stepmother Rovena (42) and two siblings: Jean W (18), Ada A (10). AVL 1918 - 42, Nutgrove Road, St Helens.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=20]Remembered on St John the Evangelist, Ravenhead War Memorial[/url] MIC not found.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=20]Remembered on St John the Evangelist, Ravenhead War Memorial[/url] MIC not found.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/310642HenryValentineBoyes.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/HenryValentineBoyes_Probate.jpg[/pic][caption]National Probate Calendar[/caption]
[pic]tpics/Boyes.jpg[/pic][caption]Image courtesy of Jeff Keenan from the Local Press[/caption]
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[caption]The headstone of Henry V Boyes at Eccleston Christchurch
(Photograph courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]
