20294 Pte Frederick V Boddington, 2nd Bn, Norfolk Regt

20294 Private Frederick Victor Boddington of the 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, died on the 14th July 1917. He was born in Leyton, in what is now East London but which was then Essex, and enlisted in London. His number suggests that he joined the Norfolk Regiment in late August or early September 1915.

Frederick died in Mesopotamia, and he is buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission