Name
Frederick Mansfield
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14212
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, All Saints, Church Memorials), Hockerill
Pre War
Frederick was born in 1890 in Leyton, Essex (baptised at Holy Trinity, Harrow Green, Essex, on 13 Jul 1890) to Reuben Mansfield, a railway fireman and Elizabeth Ann (nee Pilgrim).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Reuben (born 1888) and Frederick, lived in Stewart Road, Wanstead, Essex. By the 1901 Census the family of parents Reuben, Frederick, May (born 1895), Stanley (born 1897) and Edith (born 1900), were living at Leytonstone Road, West Ham. By 1911 the family of parents, Frederick, May, Stanley and Edith had moved to 30 Kingstone Road, Leytonstone, Essex and Frederick was working as a labourer for an Electric Light company. (N.B. both his parents were born in Bishops Stortford).
Wartime Service
Fred enlisted in Bishop's Stortford at some time in late 1914 as Private 14212 Bedfordshire Regiment and after training left with a Draft to 2nd Battalion on 17 Mar 1915 arriving at billets in Estaires on 20 Mar 1915. He took part in the Battle of Festubert (16 – 18 May 1915) where the Battalion casualties in other Ranks were 45 Killed, 65 Missing and 276 Wounded.
Fred’s death is recorded as 14 Jun 1915. As there appears to be no remains Fred is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial. It is stated on his Medal index card and the Register of Soldiers’ Effects that he committed suicide. Soldiers Died shows Regimental Number 14214.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £4 16s 1d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
Brenda Palmer, Paul Johnson
