Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Edward Richard Boxer, D.S.O. 1st Battalion (10th Foot) The Lincolnshire Regiment. 2nd and only surviving son of Lieutenant Edward William Frederick Boxer, Royal Navy [who was lost in H.M.S. Captain when she foundered off Cape Finisterre, 7th September 1870], by his wife Edith Graham, of Thorpe Lodge, Sandown, Isle of White (who later married Colonel Frederick Swaine Le Grice, Royal Artillery),daughter of Coutts Stone; grandson of Major-General Edward Mournier Boxer, R.A., F.R.S., and great-grandson of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Boxer, K.C.B.; born Norbiton, County of Surrey, 8th January 1871; educated at the Royal Naval School, Stubbington; Kelly College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Queen’ s Cadet); gazetted... 2nd lieutenant Lincolnshire Regiment, 27th January 1892, and promoted Lieutenant 14th August 1893, Captain, 7th April 1900, Major, 25th March 1911, and Lieutenant-Colonel 27th May 1915; took part in the Nile Expedition 1898, including the Battle of Atbara, where he was severely wounded (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 24th May 1898]; Egyptian Medal and Clasp; Medal); was Adjutant of Militia Battalion and Special Reserve of his Regiment 1st September 1903 to 31st August 1908; served in Malta, Egypt, India, Gibraltar and Bermuda; came home with his regiment in September 1914 and joined the British Expeditionary Force in France in November; was Second-in-command of the 1st Battalion in the fighting around Ypres, and afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battalion; took part in the Engagements at Festubert, and then took over command of the 1st Battalion at Hooge on 27th May, and was killed in action there 16th June 1915, leading his regiment in the advance that day. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22nd June 1915]
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