Bodimeade, H C
HENRY CHARLES BODIMEADE
Remembered with honour Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard: Plot I, Row C, Grave 2,
He enlisted in Willesden, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 star medals, his qualifying date being 12 March 1915, and was killed in action early in the morning with a working party at Rue Petillon. Unfortunately, Henry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Annie (nee WICKS) and the late Henry David BODIMEADE; husband of Frances Caroline (nee JOHN) BODIMEADE of Wealdstone, Middx..
His parents married 25 December 1890 at All Saints, Harrow Weald, Middx. Henry died 1914 aged 48, and was buried 19 September; Annie died 1935 aged 65; both in the Hendon district and both in Wealdstone Cemetery.
Henry was born 1891 in St Giles, Middx, and married 1911 in the Marylebone, London, district; they had one child. He resided in Wealdstone. Frances remarried 1920 in the Marylebone district to Arthur S CORRIE and died 1975 in the Brent, Middx, district aged 82.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 month he lived in St Pancras, London, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he lived in Wealdstone, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printer’s apprentice aged 20, he still lived in Wealdstone, with his parents and three siblings.
Service number
3776Rank
PrivateUnit
7th BattalionRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
10/06/1915Age at death
23Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)