T/17760 CQMS Francis Boon, Army Service Corps
Arrived overseas: 9 November 1914. Connection: Warrant, photo and ephemera. The 1901 census of England and Wales has two brothers, Francis Kellaway Bush Boon, aged 21, and Daniel Bush Boon, aged 20, serving as drivers with the ASC, and stationed at Devonport. The place of birth for both of them is recorded as Axminster, Devon. I cannot recall now, when or where I picked up the ephemera to Francis Boon but it fits my 1914 collecting theme well, and I would guess that the only photo I have of him, and which I have posted on this blog, probably dates to early in his army career. In 1914 he would arrive overseas on the 9th November and would survive the war, apparently unscathed, and having been mentioned in Dispatches. On the 14th June 1918 he had been appointed Warrant Officer Class I.