Name
Frederick Able Petchey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/05/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31055
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
VI. H. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury
Pre War
Frederick was born in Clapgate, Albury in early 1882, the son of Joseph and Caroline Petchey. His father was a farm labourer. In 1891 he was still living at home with his parents and this was still the case in 1901 and he was working as a herdsman on a
Wartime Service
His residence given as Albury in army records and that is where he enlisted. He joined the 7th Bn. Bedfordshires, but on the day of his reported death the 7th Bn. do not appear to have been in action, so perhaps he had been wounded earlier, and died late
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
