No.42839, Private, Walter BOYDEN
Aged 26
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Walter Boyden was born in Lawshall (1st qtr 1891 Sudbury 4a:725) son of James and Maria BOYDEN (née ANDREWS )
1891 census...Aged 4 months, he was at Hibb's Green, Lawshall with his fatherJames BOYDEN [30] grocer born Lawshall; his mother Maria [28] born Cockfield. 1901 census...Aged 10, he was still at Hibb's Green with his parents; brothers Fred [16] born Cockfield and Horace [8] born Lawshall. 1911 census...Aged 20, a pedlar, still at Hibb's Green, Lawshall with his parents ( father now a farmer), brothers Horace [18] and Tom [16] working on father's farm, and Bert [11]. On the pension card his father was in Lawshall |
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He enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds
The war diary has:- 11th/12th....A Coy (3 platoons) under Capt JAW WILSON MC with 2/Lieuts MUMFORD and SIMPSON move up from Support Line and line up in three lines west of the STEENBEEK and at 4:20am under a pocket barrage attack PASSERELLE FARM (ref U.21.c.3.9. Langemarke 1.10,000) Attack successful Position consolidated and held. Two machine guns and one howitzer captured. 3 wounded prisoners taken. CWGC have 22 killed, of which 17 are named on the Menin Gate in Ypres..2 were found with Walter and reinterred in Artillery Wood Cemetery. Walter was found, identified by his disc and re-interred in 1919.
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