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possibly Ernest John Egerton Boys MC www.halhed.com/t4r/getperson.php?personID=I15926

There is a Medal Index Card held at the National Archive of an E J E Boys who rose from Second Lieutenant to Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery. Reference number is WO 372/3/23500. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D1... The Halhed Com link above lists his birthplace as Bellary, Madras, India. Parents were Justin William and Bertha, (nee Stewart). His date of birth was the 11th February 1887 and he also went by the name of Jack Boys. Other family announcements from The Times Of India that appear to relate: The birth of a daughter to the wife of J W Boyes at Bellary on the 4th December 1885 was announced in the 10th December edition. search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=710633 May be a co-incidence, but the 1901 UK census for England and Wales has an E John E Boys, born India, who was recorded as a visitor at 57 Bromham Road, Bedford. There are two other visitors in the household - a 40 year old Bertha S,Boys, born Ceylon, and a 5 year old Ivy Sybil, born Bedford. Head of the household is a 55 year old Annie Cantrell, born Ireland. Annie is recorded as married. She has five children living with her, aged between 25 and 14 and all born Ceylon. While I couldn't find him again on the 1911 census, I could find Bertha (aged 50) and Ivy, (aged 15), now recorded as Visitors at a Guest House at 3 Cecil Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire. I've done a high-level search of the Irish census for 1911 but couldn't find Ernest there either. London Gazette announcements. 3rd June 1916: Award of the Military Cross to Temporary Captain Ernest John Egerton Boys www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29608/supplements/5571 (One of a long list with no specific citation given for the award) 6th September 1921; Temp. Maj E J E Boys M C relinquished his commission on completion of service and retains the rank of Major with effect 2nd July 1919. The Halhed page references that Ernest married a Janet Myfanwy Thoresby-Jones in 1917 and they had a son, Anthony Vernon ("Toby") Boys in 1922. In the London Gazette of the 26th June 1942 the name of a Private Anthony Vernon Boys appears in a long list of what I suspect are individuals being commissioned as officers from the ranks. www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35610/pages/2823/page.pdf (The Halhead site has this down as his appointment as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army). www.halhed.com/t4r/getperson.php?personID=I15925&tree... Sadly Anthony would die aged 37 in 1959. His father pre-deceased him, passing away in Dublin in 1953. If you have a subscription to Ancestry.com, you will be able to see at least two wartime pictures of Anthony - in one, a classic photographers headshot, he appears to have the two pips of a Lieutenant on his shoulders. A third picture was taken on his wedding day to a "Thea". (The Halhed site has him marrying a Dorothea Maud Cheese in the April to June 1950 quarter) In all three pictures there is a a noticeable family resemblance between father and son.

May his memory be a blessing.

Captain Bowen's Military Cross was gazetted on 18th July 1917. The citation says that "He led his men with great skill and courage. On four separate occasions he advanced his company and had to dig in on new lines. His personal example was of the utmost value to his men under very trying conditions." He was Lt. (acting Cpt.) at that time.

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From the Anglo Boer War Forum www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-awards/234-lieute... by Brett Hendey I have posted my record of B R Brewin elsewhere but, since he is an interesting and somewhat troubled soldier who served in the Boer War, this forum seems an appropriate place to publicise him further. Lieutenant-Colonel Bertram Robert Brewin MC Bertram Robert Brewin was born on 12/4/1873, the son of Arthur Brewin and his wife Mary Mossop. Arthur Brewin was an Assistant Master of Giggleswick School in Settle, Yorkshire. Educated at Giggleswick School from September 1882 to July 1890. Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on 26/9/1890. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 27/7/1892. 11 Company, Eastern Division, Royal Artillery at Landguard Fort from 1892 to 1895. Lieutenant, RA, 27/7/1895. Malta from September 1895 to November 1896. Rawalpindi and Agra, India, with 5 Company, Southern Division, RA, from November 1896 to September 1898. Resigned commission on 14/9/1898. Enlisted as a Trooper in Natal Police (No. 2254) in Pietermaritzburg on 29/11/1898. With Natal Police Field Force during operations to relieve the siege of Ladysmith (November 1899 to February 1900) and possibly a member of General Buller’s Bodyguard during that period. Recommissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23/5/1900 and left the NP on 3/7/1900. 23rd Company, Western Division, RGA, from July 1900 to October 1901. Appointed Assistant Press Censor for a period. Mentioned in Despatches by Lord Roberts, 10/9/1901. Resigned commission on 23/11/1901. Volunteered for service in the Cape Police in London on 17/2/1902. Attested as a Private in Cape Police, District No. 1 (No. 2476) in Cape Town on 24/3/1902. Released from active duty at end of war, 31/5/1902. Awarded Queen’s South Africa Medal with four clasps (Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Cape Colony & South Africa 1901) (2254 Tpr. B. R. Brewin. Natal Police.). Tailor’s copies of the clasps Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State and Transvaal, to which Brewin was not entitled, have been added to the medal. The Cape Colony clasp was for service with the CP, while the South Africa 1901 clasp was for service with the RGA. Remained with the Cape Police after the war and re-enrolled on 1/3/1905 for a further period of three years in what had become the Cape Mounted Police. Dismissed from the CMP on 23/4/1907 for “Misconduct”. Nature of the offence is not known. Returned to England where he was employed as a secretary. Married Alice K Mattinson in Settle, Yorkshire, during 1913. (In 1901, a Miss Mattinson, a cousin, of Clapham, via Lancaster, was listed as his next of kin.) Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, on 10/8/1914. Temporary Captain, 6th West Riding Regiment, on 21/11/1914. Captain and Adjutant, 6th West Riding Regiment, on 8/3/1915. Temporary Major, 6th West Riding Regiment, on 5/11/1915. To France, December 1916. Second in Command, 16th Battalion, Royal Scots (34th Division), 9/2/1917 to 26/4/1917. With 16th Battalion, Royal Scots, at the Battle of Arras (Vimy Ridge) in April 1917. Commanding Officer (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel), 24th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish) (34th Division), 26/4/1917. As a result of intemperance, he was relieved of command on 18/6/1917. Reverted to Captain on 20/6/1917. Company Commander, 1st Battalion, Gloucester Regiment (3rd Brigade, 1st Division), 15/7/1917. On 29/8/1917 he was arrested and placed on a charge of intemperance. No further action was taken because in a letter dated 16/10/1917, the Commander-in-Chief wrote: “All commanders whom Captain Brewin has served testify to his personal gallantry and efficiency as an officer. I consider that no further action should be taken in his case. He is fine fighting soldier and he now appears to be overcoming his apparent failing of intemperance.” With the 1st Battalion, Gloucester Regiment, at the 3rd Battle of Ypres. Wounded at Passchendaele (shrapnel right thigh) on 10/11/1917. Repatriated to England and granted leave to 5/1/1918. Awarded the Military Cross (LG 30530 18/2/1918) for his actions at Passchendaele on 10/11/1917. Citation (LG 30801 16/7/1918): “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his company forward with the greatest skill and determination through a heavy barrage to reinforce the attacking troops. Though severely wounded he did not relinquish his command until he had reported with his company to the commanding officer of the unit which he had been ordered to reinforce.” Attached to 2nd/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (No. 164th Brigade, 55th Division), and returned to France. Wounded at Givenchy on 10/7/1918. Repatriated to England on 15/7/1918 and granted leave to 30/8/1918. Acting-Major and second-in-command, 2nd/1st Yorkshire Hussars, 26/4/1919 to 22/11/1919. Resigned his commission on 22/11/1919. Awarded the War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. B. R. Brewin). Major, Retired, July 1920. Address in 1921 was The Cottage, Haughton-le-Skerne, Darlington. His death, aged 50, was registered in the Darlington district in the third quarter of 1923. Brewin’s World War I diaries are in the National Archives (WO95/2802). An unnamed World War II South African Medal for War Service came with Brewin’s medals and it was once thought to have been awarded to him “for at least two years of voluntary service that aided the war effort” in South Africa. Since Brewin died in 1923 it cannot have been his, but probably belonged to another member of the Brewin family. His elder brother, Lancelot, who served in the Imperial Light Infantry during the Anglo-Boer War, was a teacher who settled in South Africa. Although he died in 1932, his widow died in 1957 and the World War II medal might have been hers. 23/4/2010 BREWINA.jpg

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