Name
Henry Charles Bodimeade
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/06/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3776
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROYAL IRISH RIFLES GRAVEYARD, LAVENTIE
Plot I, Row C, Grave 2,
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Printers Memorial, Watford, Wealdstone War Memorial, Middlesex
Pre War
Son of Annie (nee WICKS) and the late Henry David BODIMEADE; husband of Frances Caroline (nee JOHN) BODIMEADE of Wealdstone, Middx.
His parents married 25 December 1890 at All Saints, Harrow Weald, Middx. Henry died 1914 aged 48, and was buried 19 September; Annie died 1935 aged 65; both in the Hendon district and both in Wealdstone Cemetery.
Henry was born 1891 in St Giles, Middx, and married 1911 in the Marylebone, London, district; they had one child. He resided in Wealdstone. Frances remarried 1920 in the Marylebone district to Arthur S CORRIE and died 1975 in the Brent, Middx, district aged 82.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 month he lived in St Pancras, London, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he lived in Wealdstone, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printer’s apprentice aged 20, he still lived in Wealdstone, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Willesden, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 star medals, his qualifying date being 12 March 1915, and was killed in action early in the morning with a working party at Rue Petillon.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Henry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. He has a listing in that De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
