Second Lieutenant Christopher Babington SUGDEN (1912)

1/4th Battalion, King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Born 13 March 1893 in Doncaster, West Yorkshire
Killed in action 25 May 1915, aged 22
Buried at Bois-Grenier Communal Cemetery, France. Also commemorated on the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School war memorial, Wakefield.

Christopher Sugden was the only son of Thomas Babington Sugden and Edith Constance, née Nicholson, of St John’s Lodge, Wakefield.

He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, and matriculated in 1912.

He enlisted on 1 September 1914, and served in France.

He was killed in action at Armentières, on 25 May 1915.