When Robert Chester Booher was born on December 30, 1896, his father, George, was 36 and his mother, Freely, was 28. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Bugler in Company M, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He sustained multiple wounds in his arm from machine gun fire in France. While recuperating in the Boston City Hospital, he succumed to the influenza pandemic and died there on September 28, 1918. He was buried in Tuggle Cemetery, Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky, USA. His name is inscribed on the Buzancy monument as R C BOCHER.

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