Private Ellis Boardman

Army Number : 265214 (formerly 1864)

Battalion : 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Ellis and Charlotte Boardman, of 24, Mount Court, Mount Street, Nottingham. He was an errand boy prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, 5th October 1917, whilst serving in the line near Hill 70, near Loos, France.

Buried : Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Plot 1. Row V. Grave 53.

Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France.
Private Ellis Boardman grave

Private Boardman is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Thomas’s Church Baptismal Register (Nottingham Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.