A VICTORIA Cross decorated World War I submariner has been honoured with a blue plaque at the golf club where he used to play in Sunningdale.


Around 40 people including Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Mayor Dee Quick gathered at Sunningdale Golf Club, in Ridgemount Road, to see the unveiling of the commemorative plaque to Lieutenant Commander Edward Courtney Boyle, a Royal Navy officer who was awarded the highest act of gallantry. 


In command of Submarine E. 14, he dived his vessel under the enemy minefields and entered the Sea of Marmora in Turkey on April 27, 1915, and eventually succeeded in sinking two Turkish gunboats and large military transport.


Lieutenant Commander Frank (Sandy) Powell, from the Royal Navy national management committee submariners association, said: “We are currently mounting commemorative blue Plaques to all submariner recipients of the VC from WWI & II.


“We try to put them at either the birth place or other such building that featured in the holder’s life and, in the case of Boyle VC, we chose the golf club as he used to play there three or four times a week. 


"In later years, he lived at nearby Station Hotel in Sunningdale, until he was knocked down by a lorry in December 1967.”


The dedication service was conducted by Reverend Rico Tice, Chaplain to All Souls Church, London., Langham Place, London and a member of the club. 


The plaque was unveiled by the President of the Submariners Association, Admiral Sir James Perowne KBE, and Boyle’s godson, Michael Boyle.


Other guests included, Andrew Panter, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, senior naval officers, members of the Submariners Association with Standards and the golf club’s secretary, Steven Toon and ten of its members.