Name
Frank Bertram Hipgrave
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/12/1918
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
R/6610
King's Royal Rifle Corps
9th Bn.
'B' Coy,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY, KASSEL
Niederzwehren P.O.W. Cem. Mem. 13.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Their glory shall not be blotted out
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials (*1)
Pre War
*1 Please see HAWP Additional Information below.
Son of Frank and Amelia Hipgrave. He was born in Hitchin and the husband of Louisa Maude Hipgrave, of 46, Tregenna St., London., but seems to have resided in Brixton Hill in Surrey having enlisted in Southwark in Surrey.
Wartime Service
He served in ‘B’ Company of the 9th Battalion and his Regimental Number was R/6610. He died whilst a prisoner-of-war in Germany.
He is remembered on the Niederzwehren Prisoner of War Cemetery Memorial 73 in Germany. The stone is inscribed “To the memory of” and "who died as a prisoner of war and was buried in Niederzwehren prisoner of war cemetery, but whose grave cannot now be found" and the private inscription "Their glory shall not be blotted out".
Additional Information
*1 Please note the CWGC information suggests that Frank was born in Hitchin, however this contradicts the birth location information found in his service record and various censuses. Also none of the addresses found in the following records reveal any connection to Hitchin: censuses, service records, German POW records, his widow's addresses (during and after his service), his parent's address. We have concluded that this is an error in CWGC records and that he has no connection to Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
