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Stanley Boughey

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For most conspicuous bravery. When the enemy in large numbers had managed to crawl up to within 30 yards of our firing line, and with bombs and automatic rifles were keeping down the fire of our machine guns, he rushed forward alone with bombs right up to the enemy, doing great execution and causing
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the surrender of a party of 30. As he turned to go back for more bombs he was mortally wounded at the moment when the enemy were surrendering.
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This biographical article related to the British Army is a
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Toxteth
Liverpool
Gaza War Cemetery
United Kingdom
British Army
Second Lieutenant
Red Cross
Ayrshire Yeomanry
Royal Scots Fusiliers
World War I
Victoria Cross
Second Lieutenant
British Army
British
Victoria Cross
Commonwealth
Liverpool
Blackpool
second lieutenant
The Royal Scots Fusiliers
British Army
First World War
Palestine
Ottoman Army
Gaza War Cemetery
List of Scottish Victoria Cross recipients
VictoriaCross.Org
"No. 30523"
The London Gazette

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