About Stanley Henry Parry Boughey
Lived 1896 – 1917 (aged 21). Stanley Henry Parry Boughey was a British military personnel.
Second Lieutenant Stanley Henry Parry Boughey VC (9 April 1896 – 4 December 1917) was a British Army officer and a British recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Boughey was born in Liverpool on 9 April 1896 and was brought up in Blackpool. He was 21 years old, and a second lieutenant in the 1/4th Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War. He was awarded the VC for his actions on 1 December 1917 in The Battle of El Burj against the Ottoman Army in Palestine. He was wounded committing the act, and died three days later, on 4 December.
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Boughey was interred at the Gaza War Cemetery.
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Who was Stanley Henry Parry Boughey?
Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1896-1917)
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Stanley Henry Parry Boughey was born on 9 April 1896 in Toxteth.
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Stanley Henry Parry Boughey died on 4 December 1917.
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Stanley Henry Parry Boughey was a military personnel.
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Stanley Henry Parry Boughey was British.
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