Robert Alexander Comyn Boucher

The photograph is shared with the Trust following research by the 11th Armoured Division Facebook Group and its Black Bull Research Team.

Remembering Robert Alexander Comyn Boucher, reported Missing presumed Killed in Action, 19 July 1944. He has no known grave so he is recorded on the Bayeux Memorial to the Missing.

British Normandy Memorial -Additional Information

The photo is taken from an article in the Maidstone Telegraph, published on the 4th August 1944, which reported that he had been posted as missing, believed killed, in Normandy. From it we find out a bit more about him. He was the only son of Mrs and Mrs Richard Thomas Comyn Boucher of Leeds Abbey, Leeds and he had been educated at Sutton Valence School.

Another article published in the Faversham and East Kent Journal in 1950 reported on the death of Robert's wife.  He had been married to Ivy Victoria Bourcher, the youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Le Feaver. She had married Robert in 1924 in Australia, where he was then farming, and they spent some years there before they moved back to the UK and settled in Kent in 1932. She had taken ill when at Doncaster racecourse and died later at a nursing home.