BODDICE, ROBERT, Private, No. 41452, 1st Battn. (54th Foot) The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regt.), only s. of Joseph Boddice, of 95 Lower Midway, near Burton-on-Trent, Sanitary Ware Manufacturer, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Staley; b. Swadlincote, co. Derby, 1 Jan. 1899; educ. Newhall County Council School (Scholar), and Burton Grammar School (where he won a two years’ course of University training, of which, however, he was unable to avail himself, on account of the war); was a Bursar Teacher at Swadlincote County Council School; enlisted in the Staffordshire Regt. 14 March, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 3 March, 1918 was captured at Nesle 25 March, and died a prisoner of war, at the Reserve Hospital, Essen, Germany, 26 July following, of pneumonia. Buried in Cemetery of Honour, Essen. His former schoolmaster wrote: “He was one of the most promising scholars I have ever had under me.” Unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5