Name: |
Sidney
Frederick Boulter |
Death Date: |
18 Feb 1917 |
Rank: |
2/Lieutenant |
Regiment: |
London Regiment |
Battalion: |
25th (County of London) Battalion (Cyclist) |
Type of Casualty: |
Died of wounds |
[Source - Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19]
In Memory of
Second Lieutenant SIDNEY FREDERICK BOULTER
25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists)
who died age 21 on 18 February 1917
Son of Bertram William and Alice Maud Boulter, of Bordeaux House, Selsdon Rd.,
Wanstead, London.
Remembered with honour
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, Grave Ref. V. C. 14.
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Field ambulances used the
Communal
Cemetery
for Commonwealth burials from September 1915 to August 1916, and again during
the German advance of March 1918. It contains 127 Commonwealth burials of the
First World War. The XV Corps Main Dressing Station was formed at Dernancourt
in August 1916, when the adjoining EXTENSION was opened. The 45th and 56th
(1st/1st
South Midland
) Casualty Clearing Stations came in September 1916 and remained until March
1917. The 3rd Australian was here in March and April 1917, and the 56th from
April 1917 to February 1918. The 3rd Casualty Clearing Station came in March
1918 but on 26 March, Dernancourt was evacuated ahead of the German advance,
and the extension remained in their hands until the village was recaptured on
9 August 1918 by the 12th Division and the 33rd American Division. In
September it was again used by the 47th, 48th and 55th Casualty Clearing
Stations under the name of "Edgehill", due to the rising ground on
the north-west. At the Armistice, the Extension contained more than 1,700
burials; it was then enlarged when graves were brought in from isolated
positions in the immediate neighbourhood and certain small cemeteries,
including:- MOOR CEMETERY, EDGEHILL, DERNANCOURT, was about 800 metres West,
near the top of the hill. It contained the graves of 42 soldiers from the
United Kingdom
who fell on the 23rd-25th March, 1918.
ALBERT
ROAD
CEMETERY
, BUIRE-SUR-ANCRE, was nearly 3 Kms West, on the straight road from
Amiens
to Albert. It contained the graves of 65 soldiers from the
United Kingdom
and 33 from
Australia
, who fell in April-August, 1918. It was made by Australian units and by the
58th (
London
) and 12th Divisions. The extension now contains 2,162 Commonwealth burials
and commemorations of the First World War. 177 of the burials are
unidentified, but there are special memorials to 29 casualties known or
believed to be buried among them, and to two buried at
Albert
Road
Cemetery
, Buire-sur-Ancre whose grave could not be found on concentration. The
extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Dernancourt is a village 3 kilometres south of
Albert. The
Communal
Cemetery
is a little west of the village, and the Extension is on the north-west side
of the
Communal
Cemetery
.
[Courtesy of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
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