Name
Frank Waylett
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/03/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7095
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Frank Waylett was born in 1893 in Baldock, the son of George and Clara Elizabeth Waylett and was baptised there on 12 November 1893. He was one of eight children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at White Horse Street, Baldock where his father was working as a cooper. His family remained there in 1911 but Frank and his brother George were then lodgers at the home of Sophia Thurgood at Park Street, Baldock, at which time Frank was working as a grocer's shop assistant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, serving with the 2nd Battalion in France from 11 November 1914.
Frank was killed in action on 11 March 1915, aged 21, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and his mother received pay owing of £4 15s 10d.
Although his father applied for a pension in December1916, his mother Clara having died earlier in the year, the pension card information suggests he did not receive a pension but did receive a supplementary allowance of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
