Arthur Francis Boucher

Forenames

Arthur Francis AWMM

Surname

Boucher AWMM

Service number

WWI 31036 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

20 Aug 1895 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 22 Aug 1916 AWMM Westbourne Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mr Ernest Woodward Boucher (father), Westbourne Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 19 Jan 1917 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 31036 AWMM

Military service

• School cadets AWMM
• Territorials AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 22 Aug 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 19 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 75 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements Specialist Company, Signal Section AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 4 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  140 pounds AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Bluse AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Light brown AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded, gsw right thigh October 1917 AWMM
• Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died of pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, Divisional Signals Company AWMM

Death

6 Feb 1919 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

Lincoln (St Swithin's) Cemetery, Lincolnshire, England AWMM A2 AWMM

Memorial name

• 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

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22277979
  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
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/380765/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/380765
  Further Reference

References

• 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. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 26
• 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.
• Waitemata wobbler : N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement. De La Mare, Frederick Archibald, 1877-, editor. Rowland, A.E.M. (Albert Edward MacKay), editor. Harris, E.W. (Edwin Walter), editor. -- [On board ship] : [Magazine Committee] Printed by Cape Times Ltd. : [1917].