Charles was the youngest of his siblings. He played cricket and football and attended Fort Street High School in Sydney, NSW.
Charles was wounded during the attack on Lone Pine at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915. He died from his wounds on 14 August 1915, aged 25. He is buried in Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey.
The below excerpt is from The Fortian (Sep 1915, p.34), the magazine of Fort Street High School. The photograph of Charles below appeared alongside the text:
CORPORAL C. F. R. BOSWARD.
Block kindly lent by "Sydney Morning Herald."
Corporal Charles Frederick Richmond Bosward, who died of wounds at the Dardanelles, was the youngest son (aged 25 years) of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bosward, of Selwyn-street, Paddington. Coming to Sydney from Leeton, where he had been employed in the office of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission for the past three years, he joined the 4th Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade A.I.P., and prior to leaving Egypt was attached to battalion headquarters staff as corporal under Lieut. R. J. A. Massie (adjutant). He was well known among sportsmen of Sydney and Leeton.
