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Military service
Service number:
10840
Age:
41
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Birth:
October 19, 1902
Brockville, Ontario
Death:
January 29, 1944
India
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot L. Grave 127.
Additional information
Son of the Revd. Charles John Boulden, M.A., D.C.L., and Edith Mary Boulden, of Canada.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
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Stained Glass Window
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 1517 Lt Col Charles Basil Boulden OBE. (RMC 1920) was the son of the Revd. Charles John Boulden, M.A., D.C.L., and Edith Mary Boulden, of Canada. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers. He died on Jan 29, 1944 at 42 years of age. He was buried in the Bhowanpore Cemetery in Calcutta, India -
Plaque
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 1517 Lt Col Charles Basil Boulden OBE. (RMC 1920) was the son of the Revd. Charles John Boulden, M.A., D.C.L., and Edith Mary Boulden, of Canada. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers. He died on Jan 29, 1944 at 42 years of age. He was buried in the Bhowanpore Cemetery in Calcutta, India -
Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 1517 Lt Col Charles Basil Boulden OBE. (RMC 1920) was the son of the Revd. Charles John Boulden, M.A., D.C.L., and Edith Mary Boulden, of Canada. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers. He died on Jan 29, 1944 at 42 years of age. He was buried in the Bhowanpore Cemetery in Calcutta, India -
Photo of Charles Basil Boulden
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Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From then Niagara Falls Evening Review. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Basil Boulden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 254 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CALCUTTA (BHOWANIPORE) CEMETERY India
CALCUTTA(BHOWANIPORE)CEMETERY is 1 km from the southern end of the Calcutta Maiden and is enclosed by a high wall. The war plot is at the rear of the civilian cemetery, some 200 metres from the main entrance. The address is 15 Debendra Lal Khan Road, Calcutta 700027.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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