Boyau was already known to the public when war began in 1914, having led the French rugby team.

Hang me with corde a boyau, she thought.

As an enlisted pilot, Boyau was promoted to Sergeant.

Boyau originally flew Nieuports with them.

Stade Maurice Boyau is a multi-use stadium in Dax, France.

Maurice Boyau, ace of the First World War who spent most of his life in Dax.

It is named for World War I fighter ace and pre-war French international rugby player Maurice Boyau.

Some Pied-Noirs (ethnic European Algerians) would go on to become significant rugby players, such as Maurice Boyau.

A stadium of one of his former clubs, Dax, France, is named to commemorate him, the Stade Maurice Boyau.

It was notable that these victories included three opposing aces shot down within the same week in September 1918-David Putnam, Maurice Boyau, and Joseph Wehner.

During this long run, he teamed with several other aces in scoring, including fellow aces Maurice Boyau, Laurent B. Ruamps, Francis Guerrier, and Marcel Haegelen.

Just four days and six wins later, Hantlemann scored an even more notable triumph when he shot down French ace Maurice Boyau, who had a score list of 21 balloons and 14 airplanes.

In the spring of 1918, Boyau pioneered the use of air-to-air rockets; he had rocket tubes affixed to the inner set of interplane struts of his Spad XIII.

On 16 September 1918, he fought in the dog fight that brought down Maurice Boyau; Klaudat was credited with shooting down Boyau's wingman at midday over St-Hilaire.

The Dodengang (Dutch, also called Trench of Death in English and Le Boyau de la mort in French) is a World War I memorial site in Diksmuide, Belgium.

The Main Boyau was entered, which made the redoubt south of Vaudesincourt untenable, which was captured with the 75th Territorial Regiment and part of the 185th Territorial Brigade on 22 April.

The German ace Georg von Hantelmann shoots down and kills the French ace Lieutenant Maurice Boyau while Boyau is attacking German observation balloons.

The livrets, on the other hand, show that various instruments were used in the ballets, including, among others, violons, violes, basses à cordes de boyau, hautbois, flutes, vielles, théorbes, clavecins, guitares, castanettes, tambours and petits tambours.

Almost all of the top French aces used the nimble Nieuport during their career including Georges Guynemer, Charles Nungesser, Maurice Boyau, Armand Pinsard, René Dorme, Gabriel Guerin and Alfred Duellin.

On 21 and 22 April, fighting for the redoubt and the observation posts continued and on 21 April, the Legionnaires, on the right flank of the Moroccan Division, stormed the German defences in front of the Main Boyau.

In the centre, Posnanie and Beyrouth trenches and the Labyrinth redoubt were still occupied by German troops, in front of the Main Boyau trench, the last defensive position running down from the Moronvilliers Hills to the Suippes south of Vaudesincourt.

The most successful were known as balloon busters, including such notables as Belgium's Willy Coppens, Germany's Friedrich Ritter von Röth, America's Frank Luke, and the Frenchmen Léon Bourjade, Michel Coiffard and Maurice Boyau.

The other day he had been there, and had clambered up the oily clay where the boyau had caved in, and from the level of the ground had looked for an anxious minute or two at the tangle of trenches and pitted gangrened soil in the direction of the German outposts.

The skin is now ready for dying in various colours: yellow dye is made by boiling the crushed root of a taranovy plant; red dye is made from the root of a plant named uiran boyau and orange dye is often made from the dried crusts of pomegranates.