Sjt. R. A. Boden, Canterbury Mtd. Rifles

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from the CWGC

BODEN, RICHARD ATHUR

Initials: R A

Nationality: New Zealand

Rank: Serjeant

Regiment: Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.

Date of Death: 23/05/1915

Service No: 7/171

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 3.

Cemetery: CANTERBURY CEMETERY, ANZAC

Location Information: Canterbury Cemetery will be found in Anzac Cove, which is the midmost of the three areas into which the fighting on Gallipoli, and the cemeteries on the Peninsula, are divided.

Historical Information: The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. Canterbury Cemetery is one of the central cemeteries in Anzac and was made after the Armistice. It contains the graves of 27 Commonwealth Servicemen of the First World War, five of them unidentified. 20 of the graves are of men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles.

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Surname BODEN

Given Name Richard Arthur

Category Nominal Roll Vol. 1

Regimental Number 7/171

Rank Sergeant

Body or Draft Main Body

Unit or Regiment Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Marital Status S

Last NZ Address Blenheim

Next of Kin Title Mrs

Next of Kin Surname BODEN

Next of Kin Address 22 Sydney St Wellington

http://www.nzmrangloboerwar.org.nz/WWISold...hardarthur.html

[Patrick H]

What a beautiful cemetery ! Have never been to Gallipoli to follow the Essex, must get round to it one day !

Patrick