Name
Edward Bulmer Whicher Boileau
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/10/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Dorsetshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY
III. K. 15.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born in 1898 in Folkestone, Kent son of Capt. Thomas Smalley and Selina Mary (Whicher) Boileau of 97 South Croxted Road, West Dulwich, London. Educated at the Imperial Service College, Windsor and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 19 Jul 1916, entered France on 24 Nov 1917 and was promoted Lieutenant on 19 Jan 1918. He became a Lewis Gun Instructor in 1918 and Assistant Adjutant in Sep 1918 and acted as Liaison Officer to the Brigadier General. He was killed in action during an attack at Sequehart near St. Quentin.
Additional Information
Imperial Service College was formed in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
