BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY BOARDMAN. LIVED 3 RAYMOND BUILDINGS, CUMBERLAND STREET – 1911 CENSUS AND 52, YORK STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 4/09/1914 AS PTE, 12659, EYR. DISCHARGED WITH MYOPIA ON 6/02/1915. HE IS DESCRIBED AS NEARLY 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, 135 LBS, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR, SALLOW COMPLEXTION. BIRTHMARK ON RIGHT FOREARM. OF GOOD CHARACTER. AT SOME POINT HE RE-ENLISTED IN THE SCOTTISH RIFLES. DIED AT HOME ON 17/03/1917, AGED 24. BURIED AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, FRANK BOARDMAN, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT YPRES ON 04/05/1915, AGED 21.
WHILE HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE CWGC RECORDS. THOMAS BOARDMAN, IS NOT LISTED IN THE SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS OF WW1?
First name:
THOMAS
Military Number:
30749
Rank:
Private
Date Died
17/03/1917
Place died:
Hedon Road Cemetery, Hull, UK
Age:
24
