Name
Frederick Puffitt
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/03/1919
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
56189
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RADLETT (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, ALDENHAM
312
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Radlett memorials
Pre War
Frederick Puffitt was born on 21 June 1886 in Kentish Town, London, the son of Samuel and Caroline Puffitt.
On the 1891 Census, the family were living in Broomsleigh Street, Hampstead, where his father was a Gardener/Domestic Servant. By 1901 they had moved to Branch Hill Entrance Lodge with his father still employed as a Gardener and where Frederick was working as Boot Boy. He had moved out of the family home by 1911 and was working as a Footman in Lilburn Tower, Alnick. Northumberland, owned by the Collingwood family.
He was said to be living at Aldenham Lodge, Radlett at the time of his death. (Lt-Colonel Hill Godfrey Morgan and his wife Fanny lived in Aldenham Lodge from 1912)
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted into the Machine Gun Corps.
He died at the Military Hospital in Napsbury, St Albans on 1 March 1919 and is buried in Radlett Churchyard.
Additional Information
His father Samuel received a war gratuity of £7 10s and two amounts of pay owing of £25 4s 6d and £2 3s 6d.
Probate was granted to his father on 15 July 1919 with effects of £323 141 3d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
