Private Charles Boaden

Army Number: 9639

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

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn and lived at Nottingham. Son of George and Elizabeth Boaden, of 72 Garfield Road, Radford, Nottingham. Husband of Lily Boaden, of 25, Young Street, Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham. He was a lacemaker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 19th September 1914. He died 2nd February 1915, age 29.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private Charles Boaden is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

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