BOSWELL Denis St George Knox Capt

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Surname: BOSWELL;

Forename(s): Denis St George Knox;

Initials: DSK;

Rank: Capt;

Previous Battalion: 8 of;

Previous Regiment: DCLI;

Date of transfer to MGC: 21-May-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 82 Coy;

How killed: D;

Where: Greece;

When killed: 28-Sep-1918;

Awarded: MID, MID;

Other Data: born 2/12/1893, father William Albert Boswell. Educ Charterhouse & Cambridge Univ.. Address: 4 Campden House Terrace, Kensington.
Casualty Form: Embarked France 19/12/1914, wounded (gsw head & neck at Ypres) 11/2/1915 to UK. Rejoined 20/3/1915. Prom Lt 20/4/1915. 13/10/1915 to hospital - Enteritis. 23/10/1915, rejoined. Embarked Marseilles 27/11/1915 Dis. Salonika 13/12/1915. 23/5/1916 transf 82 MG Coy. 25/6/1916, duties as 2 I/c. Promoted Capt 1/8/1916. 13/10/1916 o/c Coy. 24/4/1917 to UK (leave) 21/7/1917 MID by Gen Milne. 25/9/1918 to hospital - influenze. Died 28/9/1918 Malaria.
See Boy David No 42 (Sept 1964)
2 I/c on formation of 82 Coy, May 1916
MID confirmed in war diary 20/8/1917
death (malaria) noted in war diary;

Other Notes: BOSWELL, Major, DENIS ST. GEORGE KNOX, Twice Mentioned in Despatches, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and Machine Gun Corps. 28th September 1918. Age 24. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Boswell, of 13, Chelsea Court, London. A Cambridge Football Blue. B.A. Scholar of Charterhouse and of Pembroke College, Cambridge. 145. Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece.
MID: LG 21/7/1917 SALONIKA, MID: LG 30/1/1919 T/Major 3DCLI SALONIKA;

Related National Archives files: WO339/17036;

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