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Gnr. Samuel Boon
British Army Y/5th Trench Mortar Battery Royal Field Artillery

(d.9th July 1917)
My son-in-law's great uncle, Samuel Boon, was one of three brothers to serve in WW1. One brother, Renford, was a private in the Gloucester and Hampshire Regiment. He was in receipt of a War Pension died in 1923 as a result of his war service. Another brother, Leonard Victor Boon, served in the Royal Worcestershire Regiment. Samuel's cousin, Arthur Daniell, was also killed in October 1917 and his brother, William Daniell (William Henry Joshua Daniell, of the Railway Operating Division, Worcestershire Royal Engineers, was mentioned in dispatches by Earl Haig.

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