Name
Raymond Henshaw Fedden
4 July 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Honourable Artillery Company
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Chipping Barnet Memorial Cross, Chipping Barnet, LB of Barnet Christchurch Memorial, St Albans Road, Barnet Not on the Therfield memorials
Pre War
Raymond Henshaw Fedden was born on 4 July 1895 in Oakleigh Park, Barnet, Middlesex, the son of Frederick and Anastasia Fedden (nee Russell) and one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Elmdon, Richmond Road, Barnet where his father was working as a chief cashier for an insurance company. They also employed a 16 year old domestic servant. His mother died in 1903 and on the 1911 Census Raymond was living with his widowed father and siblings, Cecil, Kathleen and Frederick, at Glenthorpe, Ravenscroft Park Road, Barnet, where his father's occupation was given as a retired insurance cashier and 15 year old Raymond was still at school.
His father later lived at of "Atherfield", Argyle Rd., Barnet, Herts.
Wartime Service
He served as Second Lieutenant with the 2nd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company.
Raymond was killed in action on 31 May 1917, aged 21. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £14 10s and pay owing of £52 5s 4d. He also obtained probate of his son's estate on 21 August 1917 with effects of £167 19s 9d.
Brother Cecil served as a Lieutenant with H.M. Indian Army and was seriously wounded in late 1915. After recovering from his wounds he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was on a training flight when the engine cut out during a snow storm and crashed into the English Channel off the coast of Hythe, Kent. His observer who had been accompanying him in another plane witnessed the crash and tried to rescue him and although a lifeboat rescued them both, Cecil died of exposure on 7 January 1918. Cecil is also named on the Christchurch Memorial, Barnet and Chipping Barnet Memorial Cross.
The connection with Therfield, Herts is not known and may be linked to the name of the house 'Atherfield' in which his father lived in Barnet.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
