{"id":7132,"date":"2025-04-22T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:22:40","slug":"boddice-r-pte-41452-1st-north-staffs-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/boddice-r-pte-41452-1st-north-staffs-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Boddice R Pte 41452 1st North Staffs Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BODDICE, ROBERT, Private, No. 41452, 1st Battn. (54th Foot) The Prince of Wales&#8217;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&#8217; 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: &#8220;He was one of the most promising scholars I have ever had under me.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BODDICE, ROBERT, Private, No. 41452, 1st Battn. (54th Foot) The Prince of Wales&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-staffs-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7133,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions\/7133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}