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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 651

Three: Sapper S. G. Boyens, 89th Field Company, Royal Engineers, who drowned on 3 August 1916

1914-15 Star (48532 Spr: S. G. Boyers. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (48532 Spr. S. G. Boyers. R.E.), minor pitting, very fine (3)

Sidney George Boyens was born at Poplar, London and attested at Greenwich on 7 September 1914 with the Royal Engineers. Entering the war in France on 22 May 1915 he served there as a riveter with the 89th Field Company. Boyens died of accidental drowning on 3 August 1916 and is buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No. 1; sold together with copied research comprising M.I.C., Memorial Scroll and Commonwealth War Graves Certificate.

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