Claude Henry Boughner

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

406039

Unit at enlistment:

36th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

June 13th, 1916

Cemetery:

Menin Gate Memorial - Ypres, Belgium - Panel 10.26.28

Commemorated at:

St. George United Church, St. George Memorial Plaque

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

New Durham, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

St. George, Ontario

Next of kin address:

St. George, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Farmer

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Previously reported Wounded and Missing, believed killed, now for official purposes presumed to have died.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Maple Copse.

BX August 17, 1916

Private Claude Henry Boughner Missing in Action

Word was received here on Tuesday last that Private Claude Boughner had been killed in action. With the 36th Battalion of Hamilton he went overseas last June and was for nine months in the trenches.