BORN HULL 22/11/1887. FOURTH SON OF JOHN THOMAS BODDY & MARY ARTIS WHITE, 69 WEST PARADE, HULL AND 21 MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, HORNSEA. EX CHRONOMETER MAKER -WILSON & SONS SHIPPING LINE. JOINED THE ARMY 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.
First name:
TOM
Regiment:
Military Number:
8170
Rank:
Private
Date Died
16/10/1914
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
26
11 , KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
