Name
Frederick William Prior
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/11/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Air Mechanic 1st Class
34976
Royal Air Force
32nd Training Depot Station
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HERTFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
On East Boundary Plot 4, Row 14, Grave 17
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1883 in Hertford son of Frederick Thomas and Annie Prior and living in 6 Tamworth Street, Hertford in 1901 and educated at Hertford Grammar School. He was a boarder in Horeham Road, Waldon, Sussex in 1911 working as a joiner.
He married Frances Alice Clapham in 1912 in Hertford and they lived in "Ivanhoe,", Horeham Road, Sussex.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 29 Jun 1916, he was a carpenter in the R.A.F. He died of pneumonia in Dundee War Hospital, Scotland.
Additional Information
Fredericks grave in Hertford (All Saints) Churchyard (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
FREDERICK WILLIAM PRIOR 1ST A.M (air mechanic) R.A.F.DIED NOVEMBER 6TH 1918, AGED 35 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
