Charles Walter Bodman

Memorial: Marshfield - High Street

Regiment: Durham Light Infantry

Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Second Lieutenant

Parents: Walter and Sarah Bodman

Home address: High Street, Marshfield, Chippenham, Wilts

Date of birth: 1890

Date of death: 24/08/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: Vis-En-Artois Memorial (Panel 9.), Pas de Calais, France

Age: 28

Further information:

Charles enlisted in October 1914 and served in the 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry as a Second Lieutenant

This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave. They belonged to the forces of Great Britain and Ireland and South Africa, the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces being commemorated on other memorials to the missing

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

http://www.marshfieldparish.org.uk/wp/marshfield-history/ww1.htm
Forces War Records and CWGC