Name
Frederick Hubert Austin
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/11/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOURLAVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
B. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY ST.JOHN 17.24
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Wolverhampton Higher Grade School Memorial,
Wesleyan Church Memorial, Newhampton Rd, Wolverhampton
Pre War
Frederick
Hubert Austin was born in 1899 in Chelmsford to Frederick and Sarah Ellen (Nellie)
Austin. On the 1911 Census, he was living with his parents at 70 Springfield
Villas, New Town Road, Bishop's Stortford where his father was a Traveller in
Credit Drapery and he was a schoolboy.
Wartime Service
He enlisted
in February 1915 in the South Staffordshire Regiment and was gazetted 2nd
Lt in February 1917. He also served in the South Staffordshire Regiment as Acting Corporal
Reg. No. 17454. He died of pneumonia at No. 1 Rest Camp hospital, Cherbourg, France.
Additional Information
Probate records describe him as a second lieutenant probationer for the Indian Army. He died of pneumonia at No. 1 Rest Camp hospital, Cherbourg, France and probate was granted on 13 January 1920 to his father Frederick North Austin, insurance district Manager, with effects of £126 13s. A war gratuity of £12 10s was awarded in favour of the Under Secretary of State for India.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
