Name
Fred Haynes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Company Quartermaster Sergeant
WR/175237
Royal Engineers
Railway Operating Division
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BLARGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I.F.12
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Fred was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire in 1890, and baptised there on the 27th of July 1892. His parents were William and Mary (nee Green) Haynes. William was a Gardener and in 1891 he and Mary were living Chapel Road, Brackley with their six children. They had previously lived in Batchworth/West Hyde.
The family has not been traced in 1901, but in 1911 Fred age 20, a Railway Engine Cleaner, was boarding with Mary Ann Stevins and family at 48 Russell Street, Hull. His parents, with one daughter, were at Grosvenor Villas, London Road, Rickmansworth.
In 1914 Fred married Nellie P Britchfield in Aylesbury, and their daughter Violet was born there on the 2nd of October 1916.
Monies due to Fred, and the later War Gratuity, were paid for the benefit of Violet.
Nellie did not remarry and in 1939 was living 24 Stocklake, Aylesbury, with a John W Richard age 43 at the same address.
Recorded as enlisting in Conisborough, Yorkshire.
Wartime Service
Formerly No 1805 Sergeant 8th Yorkshire Light Infantry.
It is not known whether Fred was serving with this Battalion during their time on the Western Front 1915 – 1917. The Railway Operating Division was formed in 1915 to take over railway operating duties from the French, whose railways were in dire straits, for the five armies.
Fred died of pneumonia in hospital at Abancourt on the 29th of October 1918.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
