Name
Frederick Titmuss
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
202800
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MOEUVRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. A. 21
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
Although he was born in Hitchin and resided there. Before the war he was employed as a wood machinist in Letchworth and had spent some time living and working al Aylesbury where he joined the Territorials.
He was a married man with three young children and lived at 5, Balmoral Road, Hitchin.
He enlisted in Hitchin in November 1916.
Wartime Service
Frederick was allocated Regimental Number 202800 and posted lo ‘D’ Company in the 4th Battalion of the Regiment. He was sent to France in February 1917, having his first and only leave in March 1918. He was gassed and wounded on his return to the front and later killed in action.
On the 27th September 1918 the Battalion moved to Quant and to an assembly position near Moevres having a difficult march in the mud and the rain. Operations began at 5.05am and within fifteen minutes all telephone wires had been cut and the Battalion came in for some stiff fighting on the Canal du Nord. They captured a number of prisoners and six field guns reaching the first objective in the Hindenburg Support Line.
He is buried in Plot l, Row A, Grave 21 in the Moeuvres Communal Cemetery Extension south east of Arras in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
