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Stanley Henry Parry Boughey VC (9 April 1896 – 4 December 1917) was a British Army officer and a British recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC),VictoriaCross.Org
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forces. Boughey was born in Liverpool on 9 April 1896 and was brought up in

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. He was 21 years old, and a

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in the 1/4th Battalion,

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, British Army during the First World War. He was awarded the VC for his actions on 1 December 1917 at El Burj,

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, against the Ottoman Army. He was wounded committing the act, and died three days later, on 4 December.

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Boughey was interred at the Gaza War Cemetery.Boughey, Stanley Henry Parry
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* '' Monuments to Courage'' (David Harvey, 1999) * '' The Register of the Victoria Cross'' (This England, 1997) * ''

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