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Byfield & District Branch

Boddingtons - Upper NN11 6DL & Lower NN11 6DL

Upper

Upper Boddington

     From Boddington we remember...

     1914 – 1918:   Private Harry Branson     Private Frederick Leigh     Private Thomas Brooks           Private Sidney Hull                        Sergeant William Daniel Wells      Private Herbert Robert Boys

       1939 – 1945:   Corporal Walter George Arriss     Driver Thomas Edmunds           Able Seaman George Ronald Ford              Pilot Officer Arthur Douglas Johnson    Flt Lt Francis Allen Whitehead

 

& Lower Boddington   

Lower Boddomgton

                             Boddington St . John The Baptist 's Church Boddington WM Boddington WM Detail                                                                       above - St. John the Baptist's church in upper Boddington with their War Memorial outside.

A book dedicated to those who fell between 1914 & 1918 has been placed on the altar of St. John the Baptist's church, Boddington. This book has been registered as an official War Memorial and has one page dedicated to each of the fallen. Examples of two of those pages can be seen below.

Boddington 's Book 01  Boddington 's Book 02   Boddington 's Book 03  Boddington 's Book 04

If you turn to the end of the book you'll find a record of those who served but survived the carnage, and came home.

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