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|image1 = May, Claude Boyle (Lieutenant).jpg
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|image1_alt = Claude Boyle May
|image_caption = Claude Boyle May
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|scroll_name = Claude Boyle May
|scroll_battalion = 6th Battalion
|scroll_regiment = The Border Regiment
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|rank = [[Captain]]<ref name="na">[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D3997447 Medal Card of Claude Boyle May]. The National Archives. Reference: WO 372/13/183772.</ref><br>[[Lieutenant]]<ref name="na"/> / 10 August 1915
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|battalion = [[6th Battalion]]
|regiment = [[Border Regiment]]
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|theatres = Balkans / France and Flanders
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|decorations = {{wl|Military Cross}}<ref name="na"/> for actions in France, October 1917
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|mention_in_dispatches= Mentioned in Despatches four times.
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|name = Claude Boyle May
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|born = 1 June 1891 / Bridgeton, Glasgow<ref>Scotland’s People – record of birth.</ref><ref name="glasgow-uni">[https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=576 Captain Claude Boyle May]. The University of Glasgow Story. Accessed 11 May, 2020.</ref>
|education = University of Glasgow / 1910-1914 <ref>[https://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/members_of_glasgow_otc_who_served_in_his_majesties_forces_1914-19.pdf University of Glasgow Roll of Honour]. Accessed 11 May, 2020.</ref>
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|children =
|parents = James and Elizabeth Glen Boyle May <ref name="glasgow-uni"/> / 47 Johnstone Drive, Rutherglen, Glasgow
|siblings = Two sisters
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|nationality = Scottish
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|casualty_type = Commonwealth War Dead
|died = 19 November 1917
|age = 26 Years
|cause_of_death = [[Killed in action]]
|burial_type = Grave / Inscription: {{sc|Thy Will Be Done}}
|reference_number = XX.B.2.
|resting_place = {{CWGC cemetery|id=62300|name=Loos British Cemetery}}
|coordinates = {{osm|50.45154|2.79742|14}}
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|additional_memorials = Claude's name was added to their family grave in Rutherglen Cemetery.
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|websites = [https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=576 Biography of Claude Boyle May / University of Glasgow]
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|biography = Claude was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, and was educated at Rutherglen Secondary School. He later undertook teacher training at the Glasgow Pupil Teachers’ Institute and the Glasgow Provincial Training College.<ref name="glasgow-uni"/><ref>[[Thomas Emil Bjerre|Captain T.E. Bjerre]] is also a student in Glasgow at this time.</ref><ref>[[Adam Fulton (Captain)|Adam Fulton]]’s [[Reminiscences and Experiences of Adam Fulton in the Great War (Part One)|reminiscences in the Great War]] show that he thought May was a "school teacher somewhere in the West of Scotland" prior to military service.</ref> Claude was commissioned in 1914 and promoted to [[Lieutenant]] on 10 August 1915 just after his arrival at Suvla.
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File:May, Claude Boyle (Lieutenant).jpg
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[[Category:Officers (6th Battalion)]]
[[Category:6th Battalion Roll of Honour]]
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