BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM AND MARY BOARDMAN. LIVED 3 RAYMOND BUILDINGS, CUMBERLAND STREET – 1911 CENSUS. WORKED FOR THE CITY SAW MILL AS A MACHINE APPRENTICE. HE HAD ENLISTED IN HULL TO THE 4TH EYR BEFORE THE WAR ON 4/09/1911. SENT TO FRANCE ON 17/04/1915. KILLED IN ACTION TWO WEEKS LATER ON 04/05/1915. LEFT WIDOW & 2 CHILDREN. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, THOMAS BOARDMAN, 30749, 10TH SCOTTISH RIFLES, DIED, ON 17/03/1917, AGED 24, AND IS BURIED AT HULL’S HEDON ROAD CEMETERY.
FRANK’S DEATH & PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 28TH MAY 1915.*
First name:
FRANK
Regiment:
Military Number:
1253
Rank:
Private
Date Died
04/05/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
21
