Name
Frederick Dazeley
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/04/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14062
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Radlett Town Memorial Christchurch Memorial, Radlett
Pre War
Frederick Ishmael Dazely was born in 1887 in Elswick, Northumberland, [not Radlett, Herts] the son of Ishmael and Annie Dazely, and baptised on 18 September 1887 in Elswick. On the 1901 Census he is listed as a 14 year old orphan at Aberlour Orphanage, Banffshire, Scotland. His mother died in 1900 and twin sisters Charlotte and Janet died in 1887. His father may have gone to America and left him in the Orphanage as he is listed on an incoming passenger list from New York to Plymouth on 29 May 1934 and and an Ishmael Dazley died, aged 79 in 1941 in Darlington.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in St Albans into the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and was said to be living in Radlett, Herts at the time. He served in France from 2 February 1915 and died on 21 April 1915 when the 1st Battalion were involved in an intense battle for Hill 60. Frederick was one of nearly 100 men who died between 18th and 21st April, with several hundred wounded. Although the Register of Soldiers' Effects states that he died of wounds, his body was not recovered for burial, or not identified, and his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
Additional Information
Alternative spellings of surname include Dazely, Dazeley, Dazley. Register of Soldiers' Effects shows that next of kin was eligible for £5 war gratuity and pay owing of £4 12s 4d, however it was not issued. I
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
