Name
Frederick Waring
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/04/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3751
Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY
I. Q. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials, Plaque, Memorial Hall Pitstone, Bucks., Memorial Book, Pitstone, Bucks.
Pre War
Frederick Waring was born in 1892 in Aston Clinton, Bucks to Philip Waring, hay binder, and Ellen Eliza (nee Bligh). His parents had married in 1890 and were living at 2 Hogs row, Buckland, Aylesbury.
Frederick‘s mother Ellen died in 1896 and his father remarried to Caroline Hill in Nov 1896.#On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Frederick, stepsisters: Elizabeth (born 1897), Caroline (born 1899), and Alice (born 1900) were living at Stank Lane, Pitstone. Tring.
On the 1911 Census the family of Parents, Frederick (labourer), Elizabeth, Caroline, Alice, George Philip (born 1905) and William Thomas (born 1910) were living at Church End, Pitstone, Tring.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in the Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) as Private 3751. He was posted into the 8th (Service) Battalion. This Battalion had been raised in Maidstone in Sep 1914 and Frederick went to France with it in 30 Aug 1915 as part of 72 Brigade, 24 Division. They were soon in action at the Battle of Loos (25 Sep-8 Oct 1915).
The division was still in the Loos area when the Germans launched their gas attack at Wulferghem on 30 Apr 1916. which was repulsed later in 1916 they were deployed to the Somme for the Battles of Delville Wood ( 15 Jul-3 Sep) and Guillemont (3-6 Sep). In 1917 they were part of the Arras Campaign at the Battle of Vimy Ridge (9 -14Apr). It was at this last action that Frederick was killed on 11 Apr 1917.
Additional Information
Effects War Gratuity of £12 and arrears of £6 8s 4d was paid to his stepmother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
