Name
Frederick Charles Woodward
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266546
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, List of names (probable) on the Abbey Parish street memorials, St Albans Cathedral, Holywell Hill, Street Memorial, St Albans, Redbourn Town Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Redbourn, Herts. son of Charles Woodward.
He married Gertrude (later Mrs Hodgkinson of 61 Holly Rd, Uttoxeter, Staffs) on 4 Feb 1911 and they lived in Church End, Redbourn. He was a horseman on the farm and had three children.
Address also given as 10 Days Yard, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Served as part of the 118 Brigade, 39 Division.
Enlisted at Hertford on 17 Apr 1915 formerly 4835 Private 1st Hertfordshire Regiment, entered France on 13 Mar 1916 via Southampton to Rouen and was invalided back to England on 2 Jul 1916 with bronchitis and pleurisy. He was then posted to France again arriving at Calais via Folkestone on 24 Jul 1917 and was attached to 7th Bedfordshire Regiment. Returned to Hertfordshires on 18 Aug 1917 and was killed in action.
Additional Information
HA 27-10-1917 - Photo & note
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild
