Boyson H B Cpl 11/858 6th Wellington Mounted Rifles New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Boyson H B Cpl 11/858 6th Wellington Mounted Rifles New Zealand Expeditionary Force

BOYSON , HARRY BILLINGHAM, Corpl., No. 11/858, 4th Reinforcements, 6th Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Edward Boyson, of New Cottages, Rothersthorpe, co. Northampton, Foreman at Hunsbury Hill Iron Furnaces for over 40 years, by his wife, Harriett Anne, dau. of Henry Billingham; b. New Cottages aforesaid, 1 April, 1890; educ. Rothersthorpe Village School; went to New Zealand in Dec. 1910, and settled at Gisborne, where he was employed as a Slaughterman at Nelson’s Freezing Works; volunteered for Imperial Service, and and joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles in Nov. 1914; left for Egypt in March, 1915; served with the Mediterranean  Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli from 14 Aug. following, and was killed in action in the fight for Achi Baba on the 27th of that month; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5