8/1092 Lieutenant Andrew Colquhoun Boyes, 24/2/1891-16/5/1916.

 

DEATHS. 

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

BOYES: Killed in action, May 16th, 1916, Lieutenant Andrew C. Boyes, only son of John Boyes, No. 5 Ranfurly street Caversham; aged 25 years. He did his duty.  -Evening Star, 24/5/1916.

Photo from the Online Cenotaph.

LIEUTENANT BOYES. 

Mr John Boyes, of Ranfurly street, Caversham, has been advised by the Minister of Defence that his son, Lieutenant Andrew C. Boyes, was killed in action on May 16. Lieutenant Boyes left with the main body, and was for several months in the trenches at Gallipoli. He was invalided to England suffering from shell concussion. Mr Boyes received word last week from his son, who stated that he had almost recovered. Word afterwards came from the Defence Department that Lieutenant Boyes had gone to the front again on May 6. Lieutenant Boyes was educated at the Caversham School and the Boys' High School, and served his apprenticeship at the Hillside Workshops as a fitter. He was keenly interested in military matters, and was attached to the Cadets when at school. He was then drafted into the Territorials, and served with the 4th Otago Regiment, until war was declared, when he at once volunteered for active service. He was 25 years of age.  -Evening Star, 24/5/1916.

"During this first period (after arrival in France from Gallipoli) over which the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment occupied the line east of Armentieres the attitude of the enemy was for the most part passive, though 13 men were wounded, mainly the result of shell fire, and one officer, Lieut. A. C. Boyes, was killed by an enemy sniper."  -Official History of the Otago Regiment in the Great War.

LATE LIEUTENANT A. C. BOYES. 

At the conclusion of the Civil Service Harriers' run on Saturday afternoon the following resolution was carried, on the motion of Mr Bond, and seconded by Mr Douglas: "That the secretary be instructed to send a letter of condolence to Mr Boyes, of Ranfurly street, Caversham, on the death of' his son, Lieutenant Andrew C. Boyes, who was reported killed in the recent casualty lists." Lieutenant Boyes was a highly-respected member of the Civil Service Harriers. He went through heavy fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and was one of the few officers who went with the Main Body that were left. The club has now 50 members serving the Empire in Egypt and elsewhere. Four of these are on the roll of honour — namely, Lieutenant R. S. Egglestone, Corporal M. C. Brown, Private A. French, and Lieutenant A. C. Boyes. The first-named was well known as an ex-champion New Zealand sprinter, while Corporal Brown was a verv popular member among his clubrnates. Private French won the Port Chalmers to Dunedin Road Race in 1905, when the club won all the five prizes.  -Otago Witness, 31/5/1916.

Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres.  Photo courtsey of the Online Cenotpaph.

MR J. BOYES wishes to Thank all friends for kind expressions of sympathy in his recent sad bereavement.   -Otago Daily Times, 6/6/1916.

Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.  DCC photo.