Name
Frederick James Hiskett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/09/1919
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
243277
Suffolk Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. ALBANS (HATFIELD ROAD) CEMETERY
E. S. 18.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial,
Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans,
Not on the Colney Heath memorials
Pre War
Unmarried; General labourer in the Building Trade; Lived at home with his parents Alfred and Jane [nee Gillians] Hiskett at 20 Arthur Road, Fleetville, Saint Albans.
Address given as 20 Arthur Rd, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Formerly 3/8338 Bedford Regiment.
Pte. 5th Beds. Regt; some report that he died of wounds and disease contracted on service in Egypt, but his family inform us that Committed suicide whilst of unsound mind at Canterbury Rest Camp, Canterbury, Kent.
Additional Information
Frederick's grave (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
PTE. FREDK. JAMES HISKETT, (1/5TH SUFFOLK REGT.)
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 4TH SEPT. 1919 AGED 34 YEARS/
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 4TH SEPT. 1919 AGED 34 YEARS/
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Gareth Hughes, Mike Bennett
