Name
Ernest Ralph Bodey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/12/1916
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
2998
London Regiment (City of London Rifles) *1
1st/6th (City of London) Bn., attached 1st Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born in 1884 in Islington, London son of George Bodey and living in Datchworth, Hertfordshire in 1901 working as an apprentice coachbuilder. In 1911 he was living and working as a motor body builder in Brixton Hill.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London and was killed in action on the Somme.
Additional Information
*1
More correctly London Regiment
(Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
