Name
Frederick George Knowles
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35176
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st/4th Bn. (Territorial Force)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 41 and 43.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bushey memorials. St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham. St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham. Letchmore Heath Village memorial. Lowestoft War Memorial. St Marys Church War Memorial, Lowestoft.
Pre War
Frederick George Knowles was born in 1885, in
Bushey, Herts, son of George and Eunice (nee Smith) Knowles, the eldest of two
children.
1891 Census records Frederick aged 5, at school,
living with his parents and sister Margaret (4), at Back Lane, Aldenham, Herts.
1901 Census has the family living in Letchmore
Heath, Frederick has left school and is work as a Garden Boy, still living at
home with his parents, and sister Margaret. The Census records his father
George as Blind and unemployed.
1911 Census records Frederick as the head of the
house, aged 25, single and working as a Domestic Gardener, living at, Woodlands
Farm Cottages, Stoke D’Abernon, Leatherhead, Surrey. He has three lodgers, all
are Gardeners.
In late 1911 Frederick married Annie Rowe in Blything, Suffolk, they had one son Reginald Frederick born in 1914.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in Lowestoft, posted to the
Suffolk Regiment with the service number 31434, later transferred to The Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment with the new service number 35176.
He was Killed in Action on 31 July
1917, at the Battle of Passchendaele, (Third Battle of Ypres). He has no known
grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, Belgium.
Additional Information
Annie received a widow’s pension of 20/5, a week from 13 May 1918, his pay owing of £2-4s-9d, and a war gratuity of £4.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
