Name
Frederick Taylor
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/02/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25412
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and face 2c
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Goff's Oak Village Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Frederick Taylor was born in 1893 in Cheshunt, Herts, the 6th of 7 children of William and Ellen Taylor.
In 1901 the family were living in 1 Holly Cottages, Hammond Street, Cheshunt where his father was working as an Agricultural Labourer.
His father died and Frederick was living at the same address on the 1911 Census with his widowed mother and siblings, William, George, Albert and Edwin. Frederick was then working as a Labourer. His mother continued to live there after Frederick's death.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Cheshunt and served with the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment.
Extract from www.bedfordregiment.org.uk: The battalion was based at Bedford when war broke out on the 4th August 1914, and was moved to Felixstowe to provide home defence around Harwich as well as drafts for the front line battalions. After the disaster on the Somme in July 1916, the 4th Battalion, along with the equivalent units from other regiments, was mobilised and sent to the Western Front. They landed in France on the 25th July 1916 and were formed - with other similar battalions - into the 190th Brigade of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, where they would remain until the end of hostilities.
He was killed in action on 14 February 1917 during the action at Miramount when (according to the war diary) 68 men were killed, 90 wounded and 45 missing, believed killed. Frederick has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 10s and pay owing of £5 2s 11d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
