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TOM BODDY
BORN HULL 22/11/1887. FOURTH SON OF JOHN THOMAS BODDY (1846-1918) & MARY ARTIS WHITE (1850-1909), OF 69, WEST PARADE, HULL AND 21, MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, HORNSEA.
EMPLOYED AS A CHRONOMETER MAKER -WILSON & SONS SHIPPING LINE. LIVING AT 11, KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL.
HE JOINED THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT ON 13/07/1905. SERVED AT HOME BETWEEN 1905-1907, INDIA FROM 1907-1913, AND RETURNED TO ENGLAND IN DECEMBER 1913 TO JOIN THE SPECIAL RESERVE.
HE WAS MOBILIZED ON 04/08/1914. ARRIVED IN THE FRONT LINE ON 07/09/1914. KILLED AT LA COURRONNE, ON 16/10/1914, WHILE RESCUING WOUNDED. HE WAS AGED 26. UNMARRIED.
HE IS COMMEMORATED AT PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL AND RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 1, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE LEFT FIVE BROTHERS, HAROLD, HERBERT, ALBERT, CLEMENT AND ALFRED ERNEST BODDY.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, CLEMENT SERVED IN FRANCE, AS S/1721, S4/250751, ARMY SERVICE CORPS. ALSO, L/CPL, ALFRED ERNEST BODDY, 12/80, EYR, WAS DISCHARGED WITH HEART STRAIN IN 1915 AND AWARDED THE SILVER WAR BADGE.
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