Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Three: Lieutenant B. E. C. Boucher, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); Italy, Croce di Guerra, V.E.III, bronze, good very fine (3) £150-180

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919.

Italy, Croce di Guerra, London Gazette 16 May 1919.

Basil Edward Cresswell Boucher, a Cadet at the Royal Military College, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 1 May 1917. Serving in Italy, he was mentioned in General The Earl of Cavan’s (C-in-C. British Forces in Italy) despatch for distinguished service during the period 15 September - 31 December 1918 and was also awarded the Italian War Cross. Serving with the 1/2 Royal Welsh Fusiliers, he died as a result of a car accident on 10 May 1919. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Edward the Confessor at Cheddleton, Shrewsbury, Staffordshire. Sold with copied research.