Gunner Charles Albert Forbes Boivin (served as C
A Forbes)
"B" Battery, 47th Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery
23/04/1917
1914-15 Star
Killed in action (struck in the chest by shrapnel),
aged 23 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Monday 7 May 1917
News has been received in the Island that
Gunner C A F Boivin of the Royal Field Artillery has
been killed in France, having been hit through the lungs
and stomach by pieces of a shell which burst very close
to him. Lieutenant F S Marr in communicating the sad
news to Mrs Beuzeval, the deceased's sister of 84 Great
Union Road, speaks in the highest terms of his devotion
to duty and the high esteem in which he was held by
his Commanders and comrades. We might also state that
another sister, Mrs Bartlett, lost her husband who was
attached to the Royal Irish Rifles last year in the
fighting at Loos. We offer our sincere condolences to
the bereaved family.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record
