Name
Frederick William Bee
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265829
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT CEMETERY
VI. H. 4.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of John and Selina (nee GLOVER) BEE; husband of Ellen Maude (nee BAILEY) BEE.
His parents married 16 June 1888 at St Peter’s, Radford, Notts. John died 1928 in the East Retford, Notts, district aged 63; Selina died 1940 in the Nottingham district aged 71, and was buried 19 November in Nottingham Cemetery, Bulwell, Notts.
Frederick was born 1896 in Radford, and married 1916 in the Watford district; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Ellen remarried 21 June 1919 at St Mary’s, Watford, to Albert COWLER, and died 14 February 1969 in Watford aged 72, she was buried 20 February in North Watford Cemetery.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Nottingham, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, learning brazing aged 15, he still lived in Nottingham, with his mother and five siblings.
Recorded as born in Radford, Notts and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Nottingham.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Nottingham; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action. Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Additional Information
There is an In Memoriam for Frederick in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 5 October 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
