Edgar Woodward Boucher
Born 15 Nov 1893 - Died 12 Oct 1917
- Service number
- WWI 4/317 AWMM
- WWI 4/1736 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Sapper AWMM New Zealand Engineers, Divisional Signals Company AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Edgar Woodward AWMM
- Surname
- Boucher AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 4/317 AWMM
- WWI 4/1736 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 15 Nov 1893 AWMM
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- WW1 E.W.G. Boucher (father), Westbourne Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- WW1 E.W. Boucher (father), Westbourne Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM
- Pre 08 Jan 1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 4/317 AWMM
- WWI 4/1736 AWMM
- Military service
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- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown/Civilian AWMM
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Assistant Surveyor/Civilian AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Engineers AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
- WW1 08 Jan 1916-08 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 37 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Sapper AWMM 9th Reinforcements New Zealand Engineers AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, Divisional Signals Company AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Son of Mr Ernest Woodward Boucher and Anna Augusta Boucher.
Attended St John's College 1900 - 1910 and is commemorated in the King's College Roll of Honour.
Member of the College Rifles Rugby Football Club
Originally reported as missing at Passchendaele, Belgium, 12 October 1917.
Two sons, brothers Edgar Woodward Boucher (4/317, 4/1736) and Arthur Francis Boucher (31036) were killed in WW1.
Listed at Archives New Zealand with number 4/1736
Attended Auckland University College (now the University of Auckland).
Next of Kin: Mr E. W. Boucher, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
About death
- Death
- 12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age 24 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
- Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) AWMM
- Roll of Honour, College Rifles, Rugby Union Football & Sports Club, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
- St. Aidans Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland 1050 AWMM
- St. Aidans Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland 1050 AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
- College Rifles Park, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
- WWI Roll of Honour, King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand.Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 5 May 2026 - King's College Memorial Chapel
Related objects
Related Serviceperson
Sources
- External links
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
http://www.cwgc.org
Sources Used - Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22277980
Further Reference - Passchendaele Casualty form.
http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12373
Further Reference - Passchendaele Casualty form.
http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12373
Further Reference - Auckland University College Roll of Honour.
http://www.specialcollections.auckland.ac.nz/ww1-centenary/roll-of-honour/search?page=163
Further Reference - World War I Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. Auckland Council. Retrieved October 2017.
https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/about-auckland-council/how-auckland-council-works/local-boards/all-local-boards/orakei-local-board/Documents/world-war-roll-honour.pdf
Further Reference - Passchendaele Museum Profile
https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/491
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- References
- Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
- Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
- Included in the World War I Digital Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. The Ōrākei Local Board commissioned a World War I roll of honour for its area to commemorate the war’s centenary. The board welcomes additional information from the public on this project.
- King's College, Auckland. (1918). King's College, Auckland : the Great War, 1914-18. Auckland, N.Z.: The College.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 67 - New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
21: 36 - A.U.C. roll of honour, 1914 - 1920. MSS & Archives E-2, Special Collections, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
- Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 1: Includes portrait - The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
- Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
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