Name
Frederick John Whitmore
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/05/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M2/103008
Army Service Corps
906th Mechanical Transport Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SAVONA TOWN CEMETERY
E. 19.
Italy
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Cross Church Memorial, Sarratt
Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
Born in 1884 in Baldock, Hertfordshire and married Florence Lottie Hatch on 19 Feb 1917 in Cookham, Berkshire. He was a domestic coachman and motor driver and lived in Wisteria Cottage, Cookham.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London on 5 Jun 1915 at Grove Park, entered France on 19 May 1916 and died at sea when the transport ship Transylvania was sunk. On her way from Marseilles to Alexandria she was attacked by torpedo by the German submarine U-63 in the Gulf of Genoa.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
