Private Archibald Boaden

Army Number: 4492

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of George and Elizabeth Boaden, of 72 Garfield Road, Radford, Nottingham. Husband of Liddie Boaden, of Arboretum Rooms, Arboretum Street, Nottingham. He was a lace factory worker prior to enlisting 8th November 1912 at Nottingham. He went to France, 11th November 1914 and suffered gunshot wounds to his chest, 20th February 1915 and died of these wounds, 21st February 1915, aged 24.

Buried : Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France. Plot 9. Row B. Grave 85.

Private Archibald Boaden is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Stephen’s Church War Memorial, Hyson Green, Nottingham. 
Loggerheads Public House War Memorial, St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Lance Corporal Bertie Boaden, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and Private Charles Boaden, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War