BODEN, FREDERICK, Private, No. 5798, 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Frederick Boden, of 38, Miniver Street, Blackfriars, London, S.E., Labourer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Richard Hunter: b. Walworth, S.E., 27 Jan. 1882; educ. Friars Street School there was a Carman for Messrs. Cooper, Fruiterers; enlisted in the Sussex Regt. 13 May, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1 Oct. 1915, and was killed in action on the Menin Road on 27 Sept. 1917. Buried where he fell. His Commanding Officer wrote: “With sympathy and regret at losing a good soldier and comrade, who always had a good character.” Hem. Catherine (20, Miniver Street, Friar Street, Blackfrairs, London, S.E.), dau. of the late Thomas Alexander Turner, and had five children: Frederick, b. 19 Jan. 1909; John, b. 29 Nov. 1915; Catherine Turner, b. 1 July, 1902; Clara Jane, b. 19 May, 1904, and Sarah Jessie, b. 16 Jan. 1913.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5