{"id":7182,"date":"2025-04-23T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:51:52","slug":"boucher-a-h-boy-mech-royal-naval-air-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/boucher-a-h-boy-mech-royal-naval-air-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Boucher A H Boy Mech 251890 Royal Naval Air Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7183\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Boucher-A-H-Boy-Mech-Royal-Naval-Air-Service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7183\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7183\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Boucher-A-H-Boy-Mech-Royal-Naval-Air-Service-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Boucher-A-H-Boy-Mech-Royal-Naval-Air-Service-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Boucher-A-H-Boy-Mech-Royal-Naval-Air-Service.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher A H Boy Mech 251890\u00a0 Naval Air Service<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BOUCHER, ALFRED HENRY, Boy Mechanic, Royal Air Service, only s. of William Boucher, of Malahide Coastguard Station, Petty Officer, Royal Navy, by his wife, L. Louise (-); b. Bunbeg, co. Donegal, 26 Oct. 1900; educ. Malahide National School; was a Paper Worker; joined the Royal Naval Air Service 5 March, 1918; trained at Fort Tregantle, Torpoint, and Cranwell, and was drowned by the torpedoing of the R.M.S. Leinster 10 Oct. 1918. Buried in Malahide Churchyard. His Commanding Officer wrote: .. Your loss is indeed ours, also the country&#8217;s. Had he lived, he would soon have made a name for himself, with his painstaking and persevering disposition, for he was soon to have been selected for a Cadetship, and to be made a flight officer.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOUCHER, ALFRED HENRY, Boy Mechanic, Royal Air Service, only s. of William Boucher, of Malahide Coastguard Station, Petty Officer, Royal Navy, by his wife, L. Louise (-); b. Bunbeg, co. Donegal, 26 Oct. 1900; educ. Malahide National School; was a Paper Worker; joined the Royal Naval Air Service 5 March, 1918; trained at Fort Tregantle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-naval-air-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7186,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}