Name
Frank Fulcher Warren
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5571
London Regiment *1
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Plot II, Row E, Grave 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford, Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance
Pre War
Son of Herbert Edward and Sarah Ann (nee FULCHER) WARREN of Watford.
His parents married 26 May 1890 at St Sepulchre, Holborn, London. Sarah possibly died either 1922 in the St Pancras, London, district aged 60 or 1928 in the Ware, Herts, district aged 66; Herbert died 1936 in Watford aged 71, and was buried 26 May in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Frank was born 4 January 1894 in Hoxton, London, and baptised 11 February 1894 at St Stephen’s, Coleman Street, London E.C. He attended first Callowland Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School from 1 January 1901 to 2 August 1906, when he won a Mary Fuller Scholarship to Watford Grammar School from September 1906 to July 1909. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a P.O. Savings Bank clerk aged 17, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 15 September 1915, and was killed in action at Highwood.
Additional Information
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads: “WARREN, FRANK FULCHER. School period: September, 1906, to July, 1909. Private, Civil Service Rifles. Enlisted January, 1916; killed in action at High Wood, 15th September, 1916.”
Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Frank in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 14 October 1916; plus In Memoriams in the issues dated 15 September 1917, 21 September 1918 and 20 September 1919. Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
