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First Name: | George Leonard | Last Name: | BOYES |
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| Date of Death: | 04/04/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Maida Vale | |
| Rank: | Private | Unit: | Royal Army Medical Corps 2nd (London) Field Ambulance | |
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Age-19 Enlisted-London Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Ypres
The field ambulances provided by the Royal Army Medical Corps were mobile medical units whose function was to provide stretcher bearers to collect the wounded and to give emergency aid before sending them back to Casualty Clearing Stations and then Base Hospitals. Working close to the front line they were often victims themselves of enemy fire, especially the stretcher bearers.
George Boyes was killed on 4th April, 1915 when at 9.40pm two shells hit the hospital in where the 2nd (London) Field Ambulance, attached to 28th Division, were stationed.
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