2nd Lieutenant – 1/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
Attached to 61st Coy. Machine Gun Corps
Died: 24th October 1918
Aged: 31 years old
Killed In Action during the Battle of the Selle, France
2nd Lieutenant – 1/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
Attached to 61st Coy. Machine Gun Corps
Died: 24th October 1918
Aged: 31 years old
Killed In Action during the Battle of the Selle, France
Charles Boyce was born in Shepherd’s Bush, Middlesex in 1887. His mother died when he was 11 years old and his father, William, was a manufacturer of saddles. The family, including Charles’s two sisters Hilda and Isa, lived in Ebenezer Villa, 11 Whitecross Square, Cheltenham.
Jessamine May Chandler, a Milliner of Ashley Villas, Shurdington Road and Charles married at St. Philip and St. James Church on 22nd November 1915. At the time of his marriage, Charles was an Assistant Land Valuer for the Government and enlisted in 1916. For nine years Charles was the Secretary of the Cheltenham YMCA, following his brother-in-law.
After serving in the ranks in France for 12 months, Charles was given a commission on 27th November 1917 as 2nd Lieutenant in the 61st Machine Gun Corps. He was Mentioned In Despatches. Having been killed in action at the Battle of the Selle, Pas-de-Calais, northern France, Charles is buried in the Crucifix Cemetery, Vendegies-sur-Ecaillon. He is commemorated on the Cheltenham war memorial, St. Paul’s Church war memorial and also St. Philip’s Church war memorial.