SECOND LIEUTENANT ALEC GORDON BOULTON
19TH FEBRUARY 1915 AGE 36
BURIED: BEAUVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE
Sun of my soul Thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if Thou be near;
O, may no earthborn cloud arise
To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.
Alec Boulton's inscription come from the first verse of John Keble's popular evening hymn and was chosen by his mother. The son of Major-General C.F.Boulton, Alec Boulton was born in India, served in the South African war, where he was taken prisoner, and in 1916 was on the Special List as an army interpreter with the 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis. He was also an Assistant Provost Marshal at the Third Army Headquarters in Doullens. He died of pneumonia in hospital at Beauval on 19 February 1916.