Name
Frederick Herbert Bayford
27 June 1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8665
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
XXIX. C. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Little Hadham Village Memorial, St Cecilia's Church Roll of Honour, Little Hadham, Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Frederick Herbert Bayford was born on 27 June 1889 in Little Hadham, Herts to John and Betsey Bayford and baptised on 11 August 1889 at St Cecilia, Little Hadham.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his widowed mother and brothers Walter and George in The Ash, Little Hadham, his father having died in 1892. On the 1911 Census he was already a serving soldier, a private in the 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment. He married Elizabeth Jane Clark in the summer of 1913 in Hertfordshire.
Frederick is recorded as Born in Littloe Hadham, and living in Bishop's Stortford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
As a serving soldier, Frederick would have been one of the first to fight in France and arrived there on 30 August 1914.
Additional Information
His widow Elizabeth received a £5 war gratuity and pay owing of £10 3s 1d. N.B. Surname Bayford, incorrectly transcribed as Bazford on Soldiers Effects list.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
